If this is true, and if this is about his notification system... is there not a fine dose of irony in the fact that Apple hired a guy, because he made a product, that functioned only on jail broken phones, which Apple fights hard to prevent from existing.
I sometimes suspect them of not really minding jailbreaking that much. Sure, they want to make sure it's not widespread, and the constant treadmill of crack-and-patch is enough to keep the hoi polloi from trying it. It provides a useful escape valve for the types that would never be confined by jailbreaking anyway. You don't think they could make it harder to crack if they tried?
Apple doesn't seem to fight jailbreakers at all. It seems that most jailbreaks rely on a security hole, and Apple has a responsibility to patch said hole.
Back in iOS 2(?), for example, you could jailbreak your phone by visiting a webpage that automatically executed code on your device. That's SO shady, and I'm SO glad they fixed it.
If Apple actively wanted to stop users doing this, I'd imagine they'd have very little trouble given they have full control over the hardware and software stack.
In what way is Apple fighting them? Other than fixing the security holes used to jailbreak.
A jailbreaker already gave Apple their money for the hardware. It's like how Apple doesn't go after software piracy all that much, relying on a serial number at best. OS X doesn't even use one.
