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A former iOS engineer , who was sued by Apple for leak out confidential information to journalists , has issue an excuse after the lawsuit againsthim was dismissed .
The lawsuit , which was filed last class , alleged that Andrew Aude commit thousands of messages to journalists at The Wall Street Journal and The Information about more than a half - dozen different Apple policies and product , include details about Apple ’s Journal app and its Vision Pro headset .
“ I spend well-nigh eight years as a software engineer at Apple , ” Aude suppose in anapology posted to X. “ During that time , I was given access to sensitive internal Apple information , including what were then unreleased Cartesian product and features . But instead of keeping this information secret , I made the error of sharing this entropy with diarist who covered the company . I did not recognise it at the time , but this turned out to be a profound and expensive mistake . ”
“ Leaking was not worth it , ” he continued . “ I sincerely excuse to my former fellow worker who not only worked indefatigably on task for Apple , but work firmly to keep them clandestine . They deserved better . ”
