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Phone conversation carried out (on iPhones, of course) between Steve Jobs and Randall Stephenson.
Ring...Ring...Ring...
SJ: "Hello."
RS: "WTF Steve? People are already hacking your iPhone to pieces. I thought we had a deal."
SJ: "Chill Randog. I've got, and I'm thrilled about this, an army of the best engineers in the world working to secure and completely lock down the iHolyGrail."
RS: "I know that's not true. You've got all of your best devs on Leopard trying to hit the October deadline."
SJ: "Hold up Randizzle. When did I say my devs were on it? I'm outsourcing it."
RS: "WTFBBQUPPERCUTPWNSAUCE!? You're outsourcing this shizzle? I'm about to fly down there and give you an iAssKicking."
SJ: "Slow your roll Mike Tyson. I've got the iPhone Dev team on the scene."
RS: "Who the F#$K is the iPhone Dev team?"
SJ: "They're a collection of the brightest devs on the planet. There's about a hundred of 'em who work 'round the clock to QC each firmware release and find all the bugs in each one. They're really good and really fast."
RS: "A hundred F#$%ING devs? How much are these guys costing us? WTF are you trying to pull Steve?"
SJ: "They're free as in beer."
RS: "Free?"
SJ: "Yeah, it's really simple. All we do is tell them they can't run useful applications on their iPhones and BOOM! They get uber motivated to find bugs. They figured out how to make malformed TIFF..."
RS: "You had me at free, Steve. You had me at free. I'm going to go delete the accounts of some dissenters. Have a good one"
I'm pretty sure that's how it went down.
