You've got a point. Back in the iPhone 4S days, I speculated that some day there could be a really interesting market for second-hand iPhone "motherboards" to be put to use in… oh I dunno… robotics, OLPC-type things, even blade servers… Of course I knew that Apple would fight rooting (and then the secure enclave came along) but it was fun to imagine.
The article mentions that several leads from the Apple chip division bailed for Nuvia, so at least the future of non-Apple boards looks a bit brighter.
Reading your comment, we certainly have much more computing power but it's no longer general-purpose. It's interesting to see cars waiting to get built while at the same time, yesterday's iPhone gets tossed as e-waste. If only there was a way to make these commodities transferrable between industries.
The article mentions that several leads from the Apple chip division bailed for Nuvia, so at least the future of non-Apple boards looks a bit brighter.