Seattle iPad developer gets a call from Steve Jobs

When you hear about an interesting blog post, you post it to Hacker News.

When a reporter hears about an interesting blog post, they contact the guy and write a story and get paid for it.

Maybe I'm the skeptic here, but what if that phone call never took place? What an awesome way to promote your new and recently approved iPad application... Simply claim that Steve Jobs personally phoned you up... Any press that comes out of the story is guaranteed to mention the name and nature of the application... and probably Steve IS too busy to care...

I believe the point of interest is that the CEO of the largest tech company in the United States( by market capitalization, anyway )personally reads developer email and replies by phone call.

As CEO behavior goes, this is not typical; even less so for such a large( again, by market cap )organization.

Or it's an interesting insight into how the mind works of the person who reads that mail. Clearly, Ram is only trying to get around the rules because there's a bug in the iPad version of iOS.

Apple probably knows that it's their bug, and can probably reproduce it easily. But they also know that they have to keep their rules about unapproved apis consistently administrated.

So, it's a massive exception (in the throwing an exception sense) rather than an exception (in the sense of getting an allowance to the rules), so it gets handled at the top.

It's interesting to see how a company handles issues like this. I've had similar end much worse.