Apple Clarifies That Missed Apple Card Payments Don't Affect Apple ID

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26307246

> Curtis says that Apple did not send him the trade-in box for his older Mac and he forgot about it, so he essentially got the trade-in discount without providing the Mac back to Apple. He overlooked several emails from Apple and investigated only when his Apple ID became locked.

The whole kerfluffle had nothing to do with Apple Card, in other words.

This is going to get added to the long list of stories where "actually this was misleading" gets about 2% as much circulation as the initial misconception-spreading story, isn't it?

This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334670

The macrumors link is just a reprint of the story that originally appeared on 9to5mac