Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has been tearing it up lately, he has been behind a lot of great iOS hacks & now it looks like he is spending some time on the Apple TV. He is working with another dev called  TheMudKip to add iOS application functionality to the Apple TV.  The hacking is still in its early stages, but the concept of running Apps has been shown & proven. To accomplish this task on the Apple TV, the iOS Springboard the software that all iOS Apps sit on to be launched had to be rewritten. [via]