According to the lawsuit, Liu quietly bagged a job offer from Snap on 18 October 2024. He hung around for nearly two weeks to maintain access to Apple’s confidential systems.

“Even then, he did not disclose he was leaving for Snap,” the complaint said. “Apple would not have allowed Liu continued access had he told the truth.”

Liu allegedly helped himself to more than a dozen folders stuffed with company data. He didn’t even with creative file-naming, shoving the lot into cloud folders blandly labelled “Personal” and “Knowledge”.

Apple says this haul included product codenames, confidential research, design docs, and sensitive supply chain info.
Liu is accused of deleting digital footprints from his company laptop, presumably to make tracking his digital five-finger discount a nightmare, Apple claims.

Jobs’s Mob wants all the stolen data back, damages on the tab, and a jury trial for a single count of breach of contract tied to Liu’s confidentiality agreement.

Whether Snap knew what it was getting remains unclear, but Apple’s legal machine is primed for a fight.

We guess what gave him away was that he was the only person interested in Apple’s godawful Vision Pro project, which was greeted by a loud-sounding yawn even from the most rabid Apple fanboys.