Looking at the comments, I get the feeling that HN has no idea how big this is going to get.
Agents are going to move this project into acceptable usability and performance in 6-12 months, across a broad set of Android phones. You're going to see people loading iOS on $299 phones, with grey zone marketplaces for app packages (like Android has had for ever).
Hackintosh was a small hobbyist community. Phones will be 100x that. There's going to be very little money in it, but I'll be surprised if this doesn't explode.
Even if this takes off in some way, the most meaningful result for an end-user would still be to recreate the experience on Android, instead of trying to keep iOS running on foreign hardware.
Reason: Android is a OS designed to run on as much hardware as possible, iOS is designed to support only a VERY limited set of components, and is increasingly wrapped into a per-component security architecture.
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Do you want to rely on a phone that’s missing a random moving selection of critical features and bricks itself on every update?