Apple Gives Warning Letters To Leakers, Consider Them A Loss To The Company

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JAKARTA - The Cupertino giant, United States (US) Apple seems to be quite worried if information about products that have not been launched is leaked to the public by leakers. It was proven that Apple had sent a warning letter to one of the reliable leakers.

Citing 9to5Mac, Monday, June 28, as for Kang, one of the most prolific and reliable leakers of news about Apple products. Kang posted on his Weibo account that he had received a warning letter from a lawyer representing Apple.

With this, Apple simply went a step further, as not only Kang, but the company also sent warning letters to other leakers. However, trusted leaker L0vetodream on Twitter claims that they have not received a letter from Apple's attorney regarding the leak.

In the letter, Apple warned leakers not to disclose information about products or projects from Apple that have not been officially released. That's because leaks can harm the company by providing valuable information to Apple's competitors.

Apple also admitted that they had stored Kang's content in his Weibo account. The company took a screenshot of the information that Kang uploaded, in which he reviewed the problems with Apple products. This also applies to Kang's review which includes release dates and suggestions to his followers for Apple products.

Seeing the reprimand, Kang then defended himself if he never published images of products or projects that have not yet been officially released by Apple. Kang said that Apple should be able to distinguish information content that is classified as an act of leaking, from information content that contains predictions and expectations.

Meanwhile, Apple's argument about the content of information generated by the leaker will harm the company is denied by Kang. He said if the warning letter was not appropriate to be targeted at him. Kang also does not believe that the information content containing expectations and predictions will be used effectively by other parties to compete with Apple and ultimately can harm the company.

Strictly speaking, Kang deeply regrets the actions of Apple which will monitor every post on his Weibo account. He stated that he would no longer post expectations and predictions regarding Apple products. In addition, Kang will also delete all previous posts, which contain related information.

Meanwhile, Apple is also making changes to its internal development process to prevent software leaks. In iOS 15 beta 1 internal files, each major feature introduced this year has a unique identifier associated with the disclosure requirement.

Throughout the internal development of iOS 15, Apple only enabled certain features and changes for a limited number of engineers and designers, reducing the number of Apple employees who knew details about the iOS 15 changes.