Meh. I know "how to work in a big company" and choose not to. Talented people will always do whatever they want.
You choose not to, but you could if you wanted to, right? He apparently wanted to, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to Apple in the first place, but he just doesn't know how to work in a corporate environment. In fact, he says as much in this tweet: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/773574683518119936
You seem to be looking at this through a somewhat unusual prism.
You and I both "know how" to eat discarded food out of a trash dumpster.
But absent some truly compelling reason, we wouldn't choose to do so, right?