From the article:
"Apple's internal security team gets it, but at the higher up, cultural level, they've all drunk the Apple juice, and believe their way is the right way, and they don't need any external help."
Well, at the higher up cultural level, they're $trillion right.
Ordinarily I'd caveat that by saying that the higher up level was running a high risk, because they're only one very serious bug away from the entire empire falling down. However, things are so weird these days that I'm not convinced that even a major security bug leaking everyone's data and costing all Apply Pay users a ton of cash would do any actual net damage. What Apple's higher, cultural level is learning is that their customers really don't give a damn.
They done this kind of thing before of course; the very first iPhone came out with < 1 day battery life, in amongst a sea of what we'd now call "feature" phones that all had 2 weeks of battery life. Did anyone care that their phone now no longer stayed charged up? Nope. And then there was the iPhone 4, holding-it-wrong gate, and other foul ups where iPhones were incapable of roaming between cells on the same phone network. Did anyone care about any of that? Nope.
And that attitude then bleeds over into Android too. If Android is a bit shonky in some area or other, it's not like switching to Apple is going to give you a shonk-free ownership experience.
About the only thing I can think of that'd now bring down the Apple edifice is a "Ratner" moment, but even then I'd not bet on it.