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Apple Products Could See 'Noticeable' Price Rises Amid Increased Chip Costs
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EVERYTHING is going up in price. Not sure why anyone would think Tech prices woudn't rise along with say gasoline, groceries, utilities, inflation.
Consequences for all.....
Consequences for all.....
They already took charging brick andheadphones out and now perhaps cable? Even at a 20% increase for chips that would make A15 around $10 more to produce. With Apple logic that’s $100 more in MSRP. I know there are other chips in iPhone production that may increase cost, but last year Apple “ate” the price increases of around $50-60 for including Mm wave 5G, which by this year should have gone down considerably without raising prices.
I have always wanted the latest / greatest, but I realized that most of the lower-end / mid-range Apple products are good enough for me. You spend like a half the price for 80% of the functionality and I'm not that angry if something breaks. And actually the overall quality is similar to higher-end Apple products, so the probability that something breaks is also similar.
It’s only a matter of time before Apple do the inevitable to save costs - drop the phone functionality from the iPhone and just make the devices all about taking photos and social media. Phone calls are just an irritation.
Not for me. But I always wait for couple of months after launch and then I buy it.
I believe that this is price inflation, not greed by Apple or any of their suppliers. Price inflation will continue to spike as the American dollar continues to lose its appeal as the world’s reserve currency and as the pandemic response by world governments continue to impact the world wide supply chain. It will continue to affect prices of all manufactured goods and services until the actual root causes are addressed. Calling it greed motivated or simply tightness in the supply chain are scape goats, not root causes.
Hence, the Fed’s use of chained CPI to measure and under report the CPI. A product, once replaced every 3 years is 33% cheaper if it’s life cycle is changed to once every 4 years. Hence, 0% inflation on a product whose price is raised by 33%.
Yep 🥺 not like we have any other choice, snapdragon, exynos. 🤢🤢🤢 android 🤮🤮🤮
1. You will be waiting a while for them to drop Intel support.
2. OS size is immaterial, for both OSs. Who cares anymore?
3. Windows runs on 90 percent of the world's computers, and the available software for Windows is equally vast, compared to Mac.
4. Intel rules the business world and isn't going anywhere.
Mx may be a superior chip, but it will be a nitsch chip for a nitsch OS. While I personally prefer MacOS, Windows still rules the world and it's time to stop pretending Intel and other x64, like AMD, are going down because of Mx.
Usually, the retail price is 3x-4x the manufacturing cost. So if Apple is selling a laptop for $2000, it costs them about $500-600 to manufacture it. So if the cost of all of the chips in that laptop goes up by $100, then Apple might bump the price to $2300.
It's also possible that they will eat some or all of that increased cost, counting on increased sales to cover the difference. As has been stated before, Apple has contracts in place for pricing, and the M chips cost Apple less than the Intel ones, so they might not need to raise prices.
On the other hand, if the 14" and 16" laptops smoke the existing MBP's, they could make a strong argument that you will be paying more for more performance now. I mean, if Apple offered you the current 16" Intel MBP for $2300, and a 16" M1x that had similar ports and storage and dramatically better battery and was 2x as fast for $2600, which would YOU pick?
It's also possible that they will eat some or all of that increased cost, counting on increased sales to cover the difference. As has been stated before, Apple has contracts in place for pricing, and the M chips cost Apple less than the Intel ones, so they might not need to raise prices.
On the other hand, if the 14" and 16" laptops smoke the existing MBP's, they could make a strong argument that you will be paying more for more performance now. I mean, if Apple offered you the current 16" Intel MBP for $2300, and a 16" M1x that had similar ports and storage and dramatically better battery and was 2x as fast for $2600, which would YOU pick?
Love to see how Android will update their products pass 3 years or their hardware last longer than 5 years.
The iPhone 13 is going to be a hard sell as it is. Raising the price may be the dagger through its heart
I agree to a certain extent, but lets see how much prices will increase. So, if components in a phone on the average increase lets say by 64 dollars, I doubt we would see a 64 dollar price increase on the phone. We would rather end up with a 100 dollar price increase - a net price increase by Apple.
I hear you, and I'm in the same boat... but there are way more financially indisciplined suckers in the market this year, loaded with bailout money that's burning a hole in their pockets. Don't hold your breath on prices.
Taking just one product as an example: entry level MacBook Airs have been around $1000 for many years now. When you factor in inflation, prices for a lot of products have fallen quite a bit over time, and for much better equipment. I'm sure I'll get downvoted into oblivion for this, but it's true. A basic Mac laptop used to cost a lot and now it really doesn't.
Yep. And a basic mac laptop is 10x more powerful and can do more things than a laptop from just a few years ago.
The cost of electronics always goes down, even if the price points do not.
I suspect that this plus marginal improvements between upgrade cycles will result in users holding on to their Apple products for much longer than they used to
I will just hold onto my iPhone 11 Pro for longer and just upgrde to an iPhone SE if they raise the prices even further than where they are at now.