what internal messaging platform does Apple use? Like slack? Or like some nice iMessage type thing

Mar 5, 2026 · 12:07 AM UTC

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how do they use it on the vision pro like this? youtube.com/watch?v=Qsn4n8F3…

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Apple’s internal culture is basically 'Eat your own dog food, but make it a five-star meal.' They use a heavily modified, enterprise version of iMessage and Apple Mail for the day-to-day, but for the heavy lifting, they have a custom-built platform often referred to as 'AppleWeb' or 'Apple Connect.' They aren't about to pay a subscription to Slack when they literally own the ecosystem.
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this makes a lot of sense
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Handwritten notes. They have a full time calligrapher on staff.
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Slack for chat Cisco’s Webex for video calls.
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They use slack but the surprising thing is they use Cisco for video conferencing
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It’s gotta be Teams right
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Messages and Slack. Or at least we onboarded them to Slack around 2019.
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It was pure Messages as late as 2018 but I don't have info since
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I’m surprised it’s not iMessage and FaceTime. I bet if it was, group chats would be better.
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Slack is very useful for cross company communication, so probably slack for most teams
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Up until 2022, it was mostly iMessage. If there was a build running in China, you would often wake up to this.
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You would hope they have a beautiful native messages-style app huh
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They use Slack. The irony isn't lost on them.
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With the amount of security lip-service Apple touts, I can't believe they would use externally hosted messaging like Slack. That sounds crazy! They'll have to switch again when Slack reaches the final stages of enshittification.
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Based on the speed at which they fix longstanding bugs, I’d say smoke signals.
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When I was there, there were three competing messaging apps. It was known that if you didn’t message someone on each then you hadn’t actually tried to contact them. This was a decade ago tho.
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I’m not sure what your relationship to this Reddit post is but as a Vogel I am pointing this out with opaque intentions.
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slack for messaging. webex for calls. but everything else is apple ecosystem. iCal, Mail, Pages, Keynote, etc
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Apple uses Slack, Cisco Webex, Jira and Confluence
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Good question we used slack
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i heard they use some custom stuff, but honestly, who knows? maybe they’re just on carrier pigeons.
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i'm pretty sure they use Slack
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slack
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Slack
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Plot twist: Apple uses Slack and probably hates that they didn’t build it first.
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slack
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They use AOL Instant Messenger
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slack, a lot of old timers use (standard) imessage tho
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Just this week saw someone at a cafe in Apple, Inc slack
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Teams?
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slack, like everyone else. imessage is for customers not employees apparently.
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