Why can't apple throw in a cleaning cloth with every iPhone procurement?

[OllyW]

Your iPod photo likely cost as much as an iPhone 7 does today! 🙂

Not quite, the iPod was £429 when it was first released and the iPhone starts at £599.

I'm still using the iPod so it's been good value for money over the last 12 years.

 

[Ray Brady]

Why is it that people think "How come" is an acceptable use of the English language?

Because it's been a perfectly valid, universally recognized synonym for "why" for at least two centuries, and much longer than that if you include variations such as "how comes it". The real question is, where did you get the idea that the phrase "how come" is unacceptable? Is it in any way unclear what the poster was asking?