At several hundred dollars for a device that costs no more than $50 to produce, There's lots of margin for technical support. The question is whether Apple has the legal authority to lock the purchasers of it's devices into AT&T's service. The telecom competition laws of the US say no. Whether Apple can support the phones is beside the point. And bricking a device that your customer has spent several hundred dollars on is not a way to ensure that you can support him. It's a way to punish him for daring to defy you.

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