Apple can't make money and will ditch the product.  

Yes, the fee comes out of the listing agent's commission, but the seller does not compensate the buyer agent, the listing agent does.So legally, if a seller agrees to pay their listing agent 5 apples, they owe the agent 5 apples whether another agent brings a buyer to the transaction or whether the buyer comes directly to the listing agent. 

Ordered it from Barnes & Noble for $28.00.

If you have a droid phone or tablet, they are available on an app called Stitcher (I don't know about Apple products).

You have to shop around and compare apples to apples.

To the same degree the power company, water company, bank, Apple, Microsoft, Verizon, Amazon, insurance company, Lowes, the post office, IRS, and the possum that lives in the woods behind my house like me. 

Some major manufacturers and retailers -- including Microsoft, Apple and Walmart -- have already warned of disrupted supply chains, and have lowered guidance (or implied it) for 2Q20. 

Not that they don’t do things wrong, and that there aren’t bad apples out there, but part of that is up to you.

I love how all my APPLE devices SINC to the computer.

I’ll build my barn first.