It sounds like this guy, at least, is thinking of a lot of the problems and questions me and my coworkers have been facing re: system startup/service config, which is cool.
I didn't know who he was before, but I do now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Hubbard
Co-founder of BSD, BSD Technology Manager/Director of Unix Technology for 12 years. Sounds like he has some relevant experience, I gather he was talking about the iPhone when he was discussing mobile devices, the IPC mechanism, remote debugging, etc.
Btw, that is likely both the source of the RTC alarm support. And also the source of the infamous bitcoin hitman hire quote. The latter came from the chat log of a community IRC channel related to Maemo/Meego/Mer/Sailfish.