"work we did at Apple" is the politicians way of saying that they created it. Compare it to the infamous "I took the initiative in creating ..." To nitpickers

"work we did at Apple" is the politicians way of saying that they created it. Compare it to the infamous "I took the initiative in creating ..." To nitpickers like us, they can say that they did not create it, but to a regular reader/listener it sounds like they did.