In the ongoing legal battle between Apple and tech commentator Jon Prosser , Apple appears to have secured a default against Prosser after asserting he failed to respond to a longstanding trade-secrets complaint, The Verge is reporting.

At the same time, however, Prosser is disputing the narrative, insisting he has maintained communications with Apple about the matter.

According to court filings made by Apple, the company alleges it served Prosser with a lawsuit in July 2025 in which it accused him and business partner Michael Ramacciotti of orchestrating a scheme to access an Apple-employee’s development iPhone and leak details of the unreleased operating system known as iOS 26.

The lawsuit contends that Ramacciotti accessed the device of Apple software engineer Ethan Lipnik while he w

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