Apple uses a jailbroken iPhone in patent application
By Nilay Patel 
posted March 28th 2009 1:36AM
posted March 28th 2009 1:36AM
Update: To those of you saying that this is in reference to one of the claims of the patent, we're not so sure -- there's no reason for Apple to use images of a jailbroken phone to make that specific point. Remember, somebody drew this picture, they didn't have to use these specific icons or this theme to illustrate Springboard variations.
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Lol.
I'll take 16-year olds over elitists.
They also have a custom background in the Home screen.
"address" is spelled wrong on the USPTO website. lol
Inventors: Fadell; Anthony; (Portola Valley, CA) ; Hodge; Andrew; (Palo Alto, CA) ; Schell; Stephan; (Cupertino, CA) ; Caballero; Ruben; (San Jose, CA) ; Dorogusker; Jesse Lee; (Los Altos, CA) ; Zadesky; Stephen; (Portola Valley, CA) ; Sanford; Emery; (San Francisco, CA)
Correspondence Name and Address:
KRAMER LEVIN NAFTALIS & FRANKEL LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas
New York
NY
10036
US
Assignee Name and Adress: Apple Inc.
Cupertino
CA
Serial No.: 207374
Series Code: 12
Filed: September 9, 2008
hahahahahahaha
I noticed the Terminal App earlier, I thought 'that's odd'...
Me 2, I wondered why no one had mentioned it.
Me 3. I just assumed that the people at apple might have access to it or something.
Me 4. I just thought may be Apple itself is secretly releasing these jail-breaking apps and tools under public groups. Just like i'm 90% sure 90% of the viruses are built inside Norton, McAfee and AVG's buildings. Then they sell anti-viruses for taht sh1t.
^^ thats why you get linux.
c-c-c-c-ombo breaker~
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
yeah what he said!lol
now we know that apple employee would like to jailbreak their phones
but they feel like we don't deserve it
Could be a tongue-in-cheek joke from the person who wrote the patent.
Can you say iSued?
even the last article on engadget showed a pic with terminal, I'm surprised they being iphone lovers, didn't catch that
plus the games icon might have been a category
apple rules!!!
lol
Actually, Nilay, everyone with an iPhone gets to run apps in the background, so the ability to do so is not at all distinguishing. Now if you'd said "3rd party apps in the background," well, then you'd have one less criticism.
Listening to music while surfing the web is not the same thing as running background applications.
♪♪The more you know♪♪
Haha, nice one Apple. :-)
(btw, this is from the days of 1.1.x - Old application icons, Installer and no Cydia, etc)
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_uses_a_jailbroken_iPhone_in_patent_application
Why did you post a link to a Digg you posted of this article?
Hopefully this isn't some sort of backdoor way to copyright a jailbroken phone or something like that!
you know it is .. apple knows what they are doing
So now they get to sue themselves?
iWouldn't be surprised...
This is big.
I would so love this news to leak on a bigger scale, not just geek tech blog followers... everyone must know Apple employees jailbreak their phones.
It might be big in your Apple fanboy kingdom.
I had a chuckle, but I couldn't really care.
Actually, it is big, and not just for those in the 'Apple fanboy kingdom'. The iPhone continues to be a revolutionary product, and whether you like it or not the iPhone is a game changer.
I jailbreak my iPhone 3G for only one app; Cycorder.
Yeah I don't even have an iPod.
It's big. We're not talking about a random employee, we're talking about LEGAL at Apple.
This is truly the most important thing that has ever happened. I predict that it will be on the front page of every newspaper for years to come.
The fun part is, I don't need to jailbreak anything to run any number of apps on my phone.
But then again, it's not considered being "revolutionary"...
Something is not right, i mean your gonna tell me that they took 20 minutes drawing those 2 icons and not notice anything.
You think they drew them by hand? Why would you think that? Look up 'tracing bitmaps'
They were too busy sketching the drawings from their jailbroken iPhones.
Spazio should sue them.
I hate to a be a stickler, but that's actually a jailbroken iPod Touch.
No
Soo.. you're saying the 'iPod Touch' has a phone icon, and a compass icon on it?
he's referring to the image on the right. notice no signal bars, no phone icon, no sms icon, etc etc.
and yes, the iPod Touch would have a compass icon on it for safari. why else would they put wifi in it?
FIG 5B is an iphone however fig 5c is a touch you can tell this because it has dedicated buttons for both music and video where the iphone just has a single button.
No. the figure 5C shows carrier and Wi-Fi. The Touch would not display carrier. Regardless, this is all moot because these are drawings, not actual images - they just screwed up on 5C. They have "Carrier" but left off the bars. Presumably the biometric security would not be that useful on the Touch, though I don't have one. Can you specify an unlock code for the Touch like you can the iPhone?
@Blakely
There is a jailbreak app that seperates music and video like on the touch. There has been since 1.1.x
there isn't a row of dots under the 4 rows of icons on 5c, suggesting that all home screen icons are on that specific screen. still no sms or phone icons. i'm pretty sure if it was an iPhone image, they would remember the most important part: the phone.
you would hope they would remember not to use a jailbroken iphone too, but we cant all get what we want :D
The patent application is titled "EMBEDDED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE". Do you think they really care whether they're drawing an iPhone or an iPod Touch to illustrate these authentication systems? Also, there seems to be a reasonable explanation for the illustration of an obviously jailbroken device. They're basically saying that the patent still applies if there are different apps displayed, even ones not covered by any agreements with Apple.
I'm not sure what's funnier, the fact that Apple didn't catch this or that even their own people don't believe in a closed platform.
LOL!
@ Agent Go bite someone else avatar.