Fyi, google also uses it. Has been using it before Apple. Even opensourced it so that people could make sure its effectiveness. Also, right now its AI division is doing considerable research in federated learning ( its basically, diff. provacy).
But,apple promoted this as if it was their breakthrough.
Heard of Ian Goodfellow (the GANfather)? He is one of the geniuses at G researching in this area.