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Why Apple Hasn’t Removed The iPhone Notch

Simple Alpaca
3 min readAug 29, 2021

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Welcome back everyone, something that I always think to myself is: why doesn’t Apple do the things that I wish they did? Things like adding a micro-sd card slot, not removing the headphone jack, and why they haven’t removed the notch yet? When you look at phones like the Samsung Galaxy S21's, the OnePlus 9’s, the Google Pixels even the Google Pixel 5a, why are these cheaper devices able to improve on some of these key areas more than Apple?

The strange thing is that Apple spends billions of dollars for research and development for their phones, how has Apple not found a way to improve this? Well, the answer is much more clear than you may think. In my opinion, Apple wants to sporadically change the features throughout a long duration of time, that way they can get people to update their iPhone year after year, why do they do this? Easy, they simply want to make more money.

Apple probably already knows how to make a notch-less iPhone, they’re just waiting for the perfect time to release it. Apple knows once they…

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