It reminds me that Sony provided a super clean teardown video of the PS5 at launch.

I sincerely doubt it matters in term of IP/patents. Apple might not want to deal with any of the press that could come with it, and for a corp doing nothing is cheaper that doing anything. IMHO the loss on Apple Store revenue ans hgiving je image of a brand you can tinker with outweigh any legal part.

IIRC they started doing it with the PS4, then PS4 Pro, PS5 and PS5 Pro.