I'm not OP, but I'm guessing they are referring to buro9[1], who posted an hour before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635184

I'm not sure if that's the link you intended to post but I see nothing in that comment rationalizing Apple's actions, in fact it seems to share the opinion of the original article.

Yeah, buro9's comment is the only one that seems to fit, but I don't read the comment as supportive of Apple at all, quite the contrary, it reads to me damning of Google.

And buro9 retracts the main critical point later in that thread when several people highlight Google Takeout.