The same reason Apple did I suppose. He's a hacker who likes to move around. He isn't a guy you hire to be a long time employee.
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Former Apple Intern and iPhone Hacker Comex to Work for Google
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The same reason Apple did I suppose. He's a hacker who likes to move around. He isn't a guy you hire to be a long time employee.
lol this guy is a class act.
Clearly he is boss material.
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Oh come on you have been on MacRumours for ten years, you know these types of articles appear. Its a humorous quickie that a lot of people will get a kick out of.
Clearly he is boss material.
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Thank God mac rumors is keeping me up-to-date on "comex"'s employment status
Oh come on you have been on MacRumours for ten years, you know these types of articles appear. Its a humorous quickie that a lot of people will get a kick out of.
What does not liking Android have to do with arrogance? There's a lot to not like about android, including the fact that doing something as simple as highlighting text and hitting the delete key while trying to correct a typo here randomly deletes other, non-highlighted text.
Because he's still in college. They don't like hire for actual jobs until you have a degree.
That's part of how he screwed up the Apple gig. He was at Cupe for the summer as an intern and after he left to go back to the East Coast he was emailed an offer to continue as a 'remote intern' but didn't see the email until it was too late
I agree, but not for the reason you're thinking of.
Hopefully now he can get back to exploiting iOS and we can go back to having a reasonably small amount of time between hardware release and jailbreak release
But having classified access would make him a better jailbreaker.
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Why do I have the feeling that he was hired at Google in order for them to steal the secrets of iOS?
So, on the Harry Potter theme - will he be able to defeat the evil empire or java the hut or whatever his nemesis was in those movies (or books if you prefer) ?
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"He added on Twitter that he won't be working on Android, an operating system that he has never "like[d] enough to ever want to hack it.""
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Hopefully he'll kill Java the Hut. Then people will stop using it, so I won't have to install it.
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Hopefully he'll kill Java the Hut. Then people will stop using it, so I won't have to install it.
So a guy who became famous for hacking iPhones has now been hired by Google?
Well Google has already been caught hacking Safari so they could steal user's data. I guess now that they got kicked off being on every iPhone and saw a massive drop in data collection, they probably want to hack iOS somehow as well.
Of course when they get caught they'll just say it was a mistake and just some lone intern or something...
They didn't "hack" Safari in the same way a jailbreaker hacks an iPhone. Different kinds of "hacking". But Google never was on every iPhone; there was always the option, right? Not that very many people use the crappy alternatives...
He said he wasn't working on Android. Plus, all of the Google services apps that are distributed with Android (Play Store, Gmail, etc) are proprietary not open source.
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I'm sure Apple gives interns access to all kinds of top secret stuff. I mean that would make a lot of sense.
Well, considering he's now a Google employee, it's not in his interests to publicly disparage the product!
What secrets? Google seems to be doing just fine on its own.
The kid was an intern, I doubt he had access to anything much of importance.
There's plenty of open source software that people hack: Firefox, Google Chrome, Linux, ThunderBird, WordPress, OpenOffice, VLC media player, etc.
Guess he'll fit right in with google now.Because, from the looks if it, the guy needs to shave and comb his hair for one!