“Straight up lie”?

You have absolutely no grounds to make that claim.

So, I hope you get paid to come here to HN and post stuff like that - because if you’re not, it doesn’t really reflect well on you…

The burden of proof is on you: where’s the public denial by Apple?

However, I did find this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/media/jon-stewar...