Macworld’s biggest story last week was a blockbuster exclusive, broken by Filipe Esposito, which leaked the full range of iPhone 17 colors based on an internal document and the testimony of independent sources. This was a proper scoop, and rather exciting… and then later in the week, news broke that Apple had decided to sue the YouTube personality Jon Prosser after he leaked secrets about iOS 26.
The timing was mildly alarming, but we had no cause for serious worry. Apple’s lawsuit concerns not so much the fact that Prosser leaked information about iOS 26, but rather how he obtained that information: allegedly by paying an accomplice to steal and unlock an Apple employee’s “development iPhone” running the pre-release software. By contrast, and needless to say, Filipe’s methods are wholly and scrupulously above board. Macworld would never publish anything that doesn’t meet our legal and ethical standards.
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