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Apple Just Increased Prices on MacBooks, iPads, and More

alongdingdong said:
I dont, its highly fabricated/cookie cutter content that is often puddle deep, rinse repeat content with embedded sponsors, commercials, then youtube itself is full with clickbait, AI, engagement traps.

All these so called usefull content, can easy be learned yourself by actually investing some meaning full time reading books/papers about the subject making you far more knowledgable then the FOMO bitsize Noise people consuming because everything needs to be on demand in short form content.

But you enjoy it it`s fine.
I watch TV, get bored within a hour or minutes depending on what`s on that moment. No expectations no highly specific content searches that youtube designed to hook your brain by keep you in a doomscroll/binge watch fest.
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I agree. I still consume a fair bit on there, but it's amazing how much of it turns me off now, even from channels and niches I'm way into.

The way they've I guess "forced" everyone to conform to making things a certain way, in a given style, with a format like you mentioned ... just sucks. All the life and personality gets stripped out of videos and the people behind them when they are trying to cater to what YT wants.
 
The Neo has been removed from my wish list. I was waiting for the new Apple TV to replace a HD version, but I may skip it until it dies completely. If the iPhones follow suit, and they will, I'll cancel that upgrade too. Increasing prices in this economy is bonkers, but it's across the board on everything, which makes it more difficult to decide what you need vs what you can live without.
 
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chuckles235 said:
I LOVE YouTube, it’s actually more interesting than regular TV. Not necessarily HBO and (surprisingly) Apple TV shows. But it’s fantastic for content. I don’t mean Mr Beast, I mean everything from Battlefield Trust videos to PBS NOVA to music concerts. Love it.
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You are 100% right. TV plays to the lowest common factor. It's all garbage for idiots. Youtube allows you to find your community. A fan of a little book series, there are shows talking about it. Like a certain type of car, here's a channel just about that.

My youtube premium subscription is the only one that I pay blindly without problem.
 
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ikramerica said:
Sure it is. They will maintain their margins so the price increases include higher dollar profit per unit rather than only increasing prices the same amount as the delta in memory and storage.
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I’d think that Apple is also accounting for future component prices increases so they only have to do this once.
 
Should increase the trade in value to buy a new product as well. Wouldn’t hurt them one bit but this sucks ….
 
That Apple TV. That 4 year old device. Just got a $70 increase in 2026. WTF.

Hope this doesn't transfer to the UK.
 
Haiku_Oezu said:
I’m sure the prices will go right back where they were if/when the memory shortage ends /s
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We’re 2-3 generations away from prices normalizing.

The M5 Ultra Mac Studio prices are going to be eye watering, probably $22-25k for the highest end now. I previously thought ~$18k but Apple does need to maintain their margins.

It’ll be interesting to see how consumer demand shapes what they ship, or if it does.
 
Yikes. Those are some hefty price increases. I'm glad that I'm not in the market for a new Apple product. Also interesting to see that both AW and iPhone were not impacted (yet).
 
racer1441 said:
Not at all. This will force the personal computing industry to start being smart and stop being greedy.

This is a great time for people to start learning again about what it takes to make hardware go farther. I'm typing this on a 11 year old Macbook Air running linux and it runs great. Cost me $100 total used plus another $40 for a new battery.

It's going to force companies to program to the specs. No more stupid bloated garbage 20gb software package because hardware is cheap. You want the biggest audience for your product, you make sure it runs smooth on light weight older hardware.

This has the potential to be the biggest benefit for the small indie developers, those who can quickly adapt, and those who know how to really do personal computing not the posers we have now.
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Have you seen the cost of everything else?
 
novagamer said:
We’re 2-3 generations away from prices normalizing.

The M5 Ultra Mac Studio prices are going to be eye watering, probably $22-25k for the highest end now. I previously thought ~$18k but Apple does need to maintain their margins.

It’ll be interesting to see how consumer demand shapes what they ship, or if it does.
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I wish I could be that optimistic, both about length of the ram shortage/ai bubble and Apple’s goodwill when it comes to pricing their products
 
Daedalus65 said:
The WSJ article also mentioned a) Micron reported “blowout quarterly earnings” and b) conversations with “large customers” about the inability to invest ahead when large customers were flexing their might to get bargain basement prices.
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Micron running 85% gross margins and 80% operating margins. nearly no inventory. "The memory sector is also notorious for being cyclical, as prices can swing wildly as inventory levels go from shortages to gluts and then back. The severity of the shortage is evident in Micron's results. Not only did revenue jump more than 300%, but it also recorded a gross margin of 85%. That's a better profit margin than even Nvidia is achieving, and means that Micron's chips are selling for roughly six times their direct costs. The company's operating margin was 80.4%, a level virtually unheard of in any industry. Inventory levels, meanwhile, have essentially been flat since the beginning of the year, at $8.6 billion, showing the company has exhausted its capacity." Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/micron-just-eliminated-biggest-risk-120500967.html
 
nburwell said:
Yikes. Those are some hefty price increases. I'm glad that I'm not in the market for a new Apple product. Also interesting to see that both AW and iPhone were not impacted (yet).
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They are probably holding off until the next generation of AW and iPhone this September.
 
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