1: > Presumably, you can make this more efficient by pipelining the process, using multiple sets of flash chips, so that a new fresh set can be swapped in with

1: > Presumably, you can make this more efficient by pipelining the process, using multiple sets of flash chips, so that a new fresh set can be swapped in within a few seconds, but it still takes a couple minutes for the iPhone to reboot. 2: > Can an iPhone even reboot 100,000 times? Nobody knows. The author seems to be well aware of both of those points. Besides they're not saying that it can't work, just that they don't know for certain that it will work.