"iMessage's .gif handling was a bit sloppy" is a believable problem; the idea that it was done deliberately to facilitate access to what amounts to a VM running

"iMessage's .gif handling was a bit sloppy" is a believable problem; the idea that it was done deliberately to facilitate access to what amounts to a VM running in an old image compression format is a big stretch. This isn't like goto fail, and even that one could be explained by developer oversight.