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Re:iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.0... by tuxone on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:05AM (#25730752)
For each iOS device sold Apple can profit from selling services (iCloud sub, App Store, Music, TV+ etc) so allowing something like that would only result in loosing customers.

The customers Apple can win are those willing to buy a brand new $1K+ iPhone, switch OS and void (at least part of) the warranty. If they are not supporting a Bootcamp for Android probably is because they did the math and it was not worth it.

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Re:iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.0... by freeopinion on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:04PM (#25731857)
Just to be clear, "did the math" in this context would mean "made some guesses."
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