I'm saying the hobbyist community for phones is massive - this is not for regular phone users. And they all have older (but fast enough) phones lying around to try something like this on.
Yes, I got that.
And I'm saying that it's not trivial to run an OS on any hardware. Android is designed for this and well-documented, which makes it look easier. iOS is neither of those.
I know, but looking at how quickly people got it running on a few other phones (I've seen pixel 1, 4 and 6, a samsung, and another), I'm thinking that codex or claude code is exceptionally good at this class of work.