Apple does not want to be a hardware company, in fact when they sell lots of hardware their stock price goes down. If they can't charge a monthly fee for it, they're not doing it.

Only 20-25% of Apple's revenue is services. about 50% is iPhone about 8% for Mac and 8% for iPad. They're a hardware company.

Apple has always been a hardware and software company.

Nobody is buying the iPad or iPhone because it has better specs. Most don't even know how much memory they have.

It's because of the OS, apps, ecosystem etc.

I didn’t say they’re not a hardware company, I said they don’t want to be one because it makes shareholders very uneasy about the stability of the company.

Apple sells a complete experience, like everyone else was doing before IBM lost ownernship of the PC.

Even UNIX, CP/M and MSX vendors, only supported their own version of it, on their own hardware.

I really love the project, but I would guess that Apple just doesn't care because it's not bringing enough profit for them to care.