Complete fiction of course...

Cut to scene in Hong Kong where a Finnish executive picks up his iPhone...

caller: "Hi, It's Spontex. We're not going to bother with the Pondfish"

Exec: "But you're our last hope. We're screwed without hardware."

Spontex: "It's not worth it. Nobody is going to buy a phone that's a year out of date and your software is late and buggy."

Exec: "Oh please stay"

Spontex: "Make it worth our while. We've got a 1000 cheesey Pondfish phones gathering dust waiting on your software and we can't even just flash them with Android as we stuck that new logo on the back"

Exec: "How about I get our Finnish company to buy the 1000 off you and sell them at an inflated price to those schmucks in Europe that still think we're viable?"

Spontex: "Even they will realise the phone is a cheap shoddy job and we'll be landed with returns"

Exec: "ok, no warranty and it's a developer device so we can say it's not all supposed to work. We'll get the community to do support on it"

Spontex: "Yeah, that'll work. Done."