Do you think Steve Jobs has a jailbroken iPhone?

I’m sure he has at some point, when a product of yours has a certain capability wouldn’t you test it as much as possible in every way you could think f to spur it’s own further development?

Oh hell no. Jobs is an obsessive perfectionist, he wouldn’t touch a so heavily hacked apart Apple product. I’m not sure that there’s much to be inspired by from the jailbroken devices anyway.

They have some in Labs to work on improving security (read “DRM”?), but other than that, if you carried one onto the campus you would probably be pushed to the floor and shot in the back of the head.

I’m about 99% percent sure that any app he wanted could be written for him with a few sent e-mails.

@richard: While I’m sure you’re right considering Jobs’ reputation, I just don’t see how he hasn’t had one at some point. even if just in passing.

I guess one of them is jailbroken.

Woz does…

woz <3

@Eambos, when he told Kathy Griffin, “You’re not cool until you’ve hacked your iPhone,” and then proceeded to read the text from jailbreakme.com, it was a moment of glory.

I am sure Steve had wacked a few hacked iPhones himself!

I’m sure Apple is paying attention to which Cydia apps get the most press / blog coverage, as one indication of which features power users are most hungry for. It is, after all, massively to Apple’s advantage to do what they can to fix features that would otherwise drive the “on the fence” people to jailbreak.

As for Steve, of course the answer depends on how one defines “has”—I think there’s no question that he’s interacted with them and has a very clear understanding of what’s possible with one, but I think there’s no possibility of his own always-carry iPhone being jailbroken, if only because of the hilarious publicity that would follow this being discovered.

Then they would have instituted copy + paste already.

:) Apple has a peculiar self-righteousness which seems to be really coming out in the cut-copy-paste situation. Several app store employees have seriously told me “but you don’t NEED that the way the iPhone is designed”—that’s the official party line at least for now…