This is almost entirely incoherent paranoia based on the idea that a) the iPhone will route payments through AT&T and b) phone companies used 900-number reconne

This is almost entirely incoherent paranoia based on the idea that a) the iPhone will route payments through AT&T and b) phone companies used 900-number reconnection scams in the 90s to prove to banks that they should be in charge of payment processing. Even if you somehow manage to follow the logic behind (b), the idea that Apple's going to just throw away its pre-installed and -activated iTunes account on every iOS device and just give everything to AT&T is completely insane.