Ex-Apple engineer talks about working on the original iPhone and how Apple handles secret projects

Terry Lambert was a Senior Software Engineer at Apple between 2003 and 2010. He is responsible for approximately 6% of Apple's Mac OS X core code (also called kernel). As such, he got the opportunity to work on the original iPhone, when it needed some kernel debugging.

Recently Terry took to Quora to answer the question what it was like working on the original Apple iPhone project, codenamed Purple. The engineer shared that he “didn't get read in on Purple until later in the game”. He was only brought in due to his skills in debugging kernel and that was his primary ...