Even if they canmanage to make it, I doubt their hardware partners can come close to matching them while paying for the OS with none of the post-sale income streams to help boost the bottom line.
Even if Button and Hamilton manage to keep their personal ambitions under control, Ican see there being fireworks sooner or later - it's inevitable as they both try to achieve a mutually exclusive goal.
What Ican tell you is that as we get closer to that date the Treasury Department will explain how it will manage a situation that is essentially an impossible situation.