Hreb

They could try, but it would be an enormous red flag for future antitrust cases against Apple.  Antitrust law doesn't look kindly on a private company inserting itself into a transaction between partner companies and their customers.

The headphone jack remains a killer feature for some and completely irrelevant for others.  I've actually been using my 12 mini with a lightning adapter for various reasons for the past week or so and it's been a huge pain.  If I had the option to upgrade to a small, modern iphone with a built in headphone jack, I'd absolutely pay up for it.

If they don't fix the reliability and functional problems with notifications (at least for iOS) they can seriously forget it.  Charge2 -> Charge 4 was such a huge downgrade for me.

Maybe they could also get rid of the embossed digits on the front.  Not optionally, but mandatory, and say ~30 years ago?

tmay said:

Another way that Expedia makes money is through commission fees. Because Expedia always offers the lowest price (or at least a lower price than the hotel will offer), people will be far more willing to actually take a trip in the first place. So hoteliers are far more inclined to sell rooms to Expedia because some money is better than no money. The commission fees are usually between 20% and 25%.

Where this analogy falls apart is that Expedia is actually fronting the money for those hotel rooms, paying the hotel, incurring the risk, and reselling to the customer.  This might be vaguely similar to Apple's situation were that it were pre-paying developers for apps / purchases, marking them up, and then reselling those apps / purchases to users.  Of course, that makes no sense.  Apple is providing a distribution platform, and they're entitled to a fee for providing that service.  But Apple's not just charging a fee, they're taking a sizable commission based on the value of the goods distributed on their platform, as if the cost of the service they provide scales with the value delivered on that platform.  This is a dubious model and, at 30%, it's pretty clear it would be unsustainable if there were third party app stores which were allowed to compete with Apple's for iOS users' attentions.