This discussion wasn’t dismissing anything.
They were just saying that it was highly unlikely to be true.
This is his original statement:
> If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts
It turns out that as writing it is complete and utter bullshit.
Also, Apple Card provides a lot of notifications of due payments if you don’t have autopay.
Somehow he doesn’t mention those.
The fact that he made a bullshit statement thar would have been cause for great concern if true, to a much more complicated story of compounded errors that would affect very few people and doesn’t explain how he missed the warnings, undermines his credibility.
Seems like he screwed up and is just trying to save face.
The comment thread on the more accurate blog post he wrote later seems like a very reasonable discussion of the issue itself.
This comment thread is a reasonable discussion about how it seemed like he made a false statement, because that’s what he did.