[techdragon]

I'm not sure the same can be assumed for Apple based on several things such as internal secrecy, differing organisational hierarchies, their willingness to focus on things that aren't tangible metrics like end user file download size.

Between the org and culture differences I'm just not so sure Apple can be safely assumed as similar as you expect.

[DannyBee]

None of the things you mention change the fact that if you increase the IOS system image size by 3x, it will likely no longer fit in the default firmware partition :)