Because of the poor redactions, we will see sections evaluating the usage of Apple’s Messages app to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp. The unique slide displayed solely a quote from Apple director of product advertising and marketing Ronak Shah describing an iMessage “core use case” allegedly much like Fb’s. One other, labeled “Snapchat in 2020: Opponents Are Succeeding and Not Simply Meta Apps,” says that “Tiktok, Insta, FB, Messengers and YouTube” are “thriving.”
These aren’t particularly juicy particulars; at most, it seems to be like somebody was simply being cautious — or making an attempt to be, anyway — with slides that got here from different corporations’ inside conferences. However the leak calls to thoughts mid-2023, when Sony spilled PlayStation secrets by utilizing sharpie to cover data — which let the darker printed ink beneath be seen below, say, the intense mild of a doc scanner — in courtroom paperwork shared within the Microsoft antitrust trial.