“How, pray tell, is that a “cash grab?””
They tell their sheep that it is an improvement.
Those sheep tell themselves that until they believe it.
And you show up to buy it.
Wow, talk about “moths drawn irresistibly and mindlessly to the light”. 10 out of the first 48 posts in this thread were authored by you - someone who states they have zero interest in Apple products for himself. For someone not interested you seem to be pretty compulsive with your posts to an Apple thread. On the other hand perhaps, like the moth, you are irresistibly attracted to the light of Apple’s products and just haven’t accepted your attraction yet.
Another patented VanDeKoik falsehood. People are NOT buying the iPhone 7 because it doesn't have a 3.5mm audio jack. They are buying it because it IS an improved model iPhone due to that and a compendium of other upgrades such as the A10 4 core processor, which you ignore so you can scream and shout and run in circles complaining about a minor change on something YOU WILL NEVER BUY OR USE. You are the rude, insulting, delusional one on this thread who is throwing brickbats at every Apple user on FreeRepublic by calling them names such as "Sheep."
In our view, its more likely the Sheep are those who follow the herd of Android users who accept 10 million malware in the wild as of TWO YEARS AGO and think it's NORMAL and an OK thing they just have to put up with. The lemmings are those who follow the vast majority of Windows users who are repeatedly abused by Microsoft with acts like forcing them to upgrade when they do not want to, and keep bending over and say "Yes, sir, may I have another!"
Apple users, a small minority who are beset by you Apple Hate Brigade BIGOTS, are those who CHOSE to take a different road than to put up with all of that. . . and have not regretted it. Our experience is broader than your myopic single platform view, as we HAVE been or are STILL users of those sad platforms and chose to leave of our own educated free will. YOU can keep dancing and making a fool of yourself, but you will just show what a fool you are, trying to tell people who know you for the ignorant fool you are.