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Apparently is used when the person speaking wasn't previously aware of something, regardless of how much coverage it received within it's own niche.
So yes, it was. You can now go find something else to uselessly and incorrectly pedant over.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/apparently
According to this that definition only applies to simplified American English.
Sorry the world doesn't all follow your backwards country. Go cry in Lake America
Your source.
Do they not teach reading comprehension in whatever country you hail from?
Do you not see the difference?
Starting the sentence with "Apparently" is you casting doubt over the proceeding information.
Using it mid sentence after giving information as a correction would meet the definition you cherry picked. Which would mean you do know about the Sony deal.
But who am I to try and correct and Yankee, clearly you lot are the absolute authority on everything. And it's my fault for not instantly understanding what you meant (despite it following zero established rules)