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All good. But iOS has a marginal cost of essentially zero. So its presence (or absence) has effectively no impact on the marginal cost of an iPhone.


Given the ongoing security updates and years of upgrades provided to older phones, I would argue that the marginal cost of iOS is NOT zero nor anywhere close to it. Relatively low, sure, but one would need to figure the amortized cost of ~5–6 years of OS updates across the devices who are receiving the latest iOS this fall.




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