[josephcsible]

If you fail to pay a company for a new thing, their self-help recourse should be limited to taking back/disabling the new thing, not all of the old things that you've previously bought from them and paid for. If they want more than that, they should have to go through the courts like any other kind of debt collection would.

[jjtheblunt]

How does that apply here?

[josephcsible]

He bought a new iPhone, and payment didn't go through. As a result, Apple did a lot more than just disabling the new iPhone.