After Apple lawsuit: YouTuber Prosser posts new video
Jon Prosser, who allegedly accessed an Apple employee's iPhone with another person, is back on YouTube.
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Despite a potentially costly lawsuit brought against him by Apple, YouTuber John Prosser continues with videos on the topic. Over the weekend, he published an overview of the iPhone 17 Pro, which also showed various mock-ups and renders of the new models expected in September. However, the rumors listed therein are not new but rather a nicely illustrated summary of current speculation.
A quick jab at Apple
The render shots at the beginning of the video look as if they were taken from an Apple advertisement. The animation of a light blue iPhone 17 Pro, the look of which corresponds to the current rumors, also ends with a logo of the company. However, it then becomes clear that it is a film by Prosser, as after 30 seconds the YouTuber appears in a studio shot.
Prosser does not comment on the current Apple lawsuit and only mentions it in passing with a sideways glance: he describes an assumption as to what Apple's new camera design could be used for with “speculation” and the sentence “please don't sue me or anything”. The video also has a sponsor – a VPN provider. The number of views is around 950,000 within three days. Since Prosser's channel “fpt” itself only has 565,000 subscribers, that's a decent figure.
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Friend of an Apple employee
Apple filed a lawsuit against Prosser in July. The allegation: together with another person, Michael R., he is said to have illegally gained access to a developer iPhone from the company that was running a pre-release version of iOS 26. The YouTuber then published a video describing the new “Liquid Glass” look. The procedure that Apple accuses Prosser and the other person of sounds like a detective story: R. had a friend at Apple, the employee Ethan L. According to Apple, Prosser and R. are said to have colluded to access L.'s developer iPhone as soon as he was absent for a longer period of time.
To achieve this, R. apparently obtained the passcode for the iPhone and also used location data to determine L.'s whereabouts. When L. was away, R. gained access to the device and presented the new look to Prosser via FaceTime. He then had the design recreated as render images. Prosser defended himself on X by saying that things “didn't go that way on his side”. Apple is demanding compensation and possibly materials from L.'s iPhone still held by Prosser. The Apple employee himself was dismissed for allegedly failing to comply with security measures. The lawsuit alleges, among other things, misappropriation of trade secrets and violation of the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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