Hey Tim...
"...iPhone sales are slowing."
I would have bought the next iPhone, in spite of the price and in spite of the DRM-infested charging cables. But then you left out the headphone socket. If your goal was to keep pushing until you found my limit of patience, well you found it.
Worth mentioning, 'Strange Parts' on YouTube has demonstrated that the headphone socket could have been included, because he modified his iPhone to include it. Thus revealing that many of the ever-changing excuses provided by Apple and Apple fanbois were false. Revealing it to be simply a cynical ploy.