>There's some crazy-expensive wired headphones out there, which don't stop anyone from buying pricy BT headphones. If they want to maximize rent-seeking, create

>There's some crazy-expensive wired headphones out there, which don't stop anyone from buying pricy BT headphones. If they want to maximize rent-seeking, create a new proprietary wired port. Because they needed BT to work on the new phones. By that logic, the lightning connector are wired headphones you want that already exist. >Charge a premium for a new tier of phone? Reclaim some credibility lost from the push for on-device content scanning? Who decides its premium? If people cared, they'd make a bigger deal about the control center not disabling the radios, nobody they are selling to cares. Where is the evidence it will be a selling point or give any credibility against on device scanning? I have never heard anyone who wants a new iPhone care about that, and they have never retracted their iPhone changes. The average person buying an iPhone will care more about the camera megapixels than any of these features.