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Apple Reportedly Increasing iPhone 13 Prices to Compensate for Increased Chip Production Cost
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Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke, and pals have been publicly trying to get higher inflation for years. Now they're finally getting their wish. 😠
Hehehe.. I think you've missed the joke.
It's true though, Apple have done an amazing job of somehow convincing users that they're their friend, like we're in some special secret club, whilst actually shaking us down at every turn... And users then stick up for them! It's like Stockholm Syndrome.
IMHO what’s bad for the environment is not that new models come out yearly but that there seems to be many people upgrading after a short period of usage.
No one is forcing them to upgrade yearly. I really don’t understand why so many people in forums like these seem to be accustomed to upgrade phones yearly. Even if money is not an issue the devices are too similar from one year to the next to even care. There are better things out there to waste your money on.
Some of us don’t spend much money beyond our tech interests and we justify it that way. I get about $1500 in disability each month, I spend about $650 on rent (my roommates don’t charge me utilities, they pay them), $80 on groceries, and $60 on internet. The rest of that money is free to be saved or spent on whatever. I put at least $300 a month in my ABLE savings account but I have a savings account with a credit union that earns 6% interest on the first $1K so I leave that $1K in there and whenever I find something I want, I spend that money and leave the ABLE account alone as a medical emergency fund or funds for once I manage to overcome my anxiety and want a car so I can go back to work. I have moderate agoraphobia as well as associated panic disorder and GAD, my options for entertainment are pretty limited and all revolve around tech. If I want to upgrade my phone every year, that’s my choice. The benefit of buying Apple phones is that there is always someone who will buy it secondhand and use it anyway, even the iPhone 6 still sells. I’m sure someone is happily using my old XS Max right now so I don’t feel bad about buying a new 12 Pro Max last year. The only way to stop the environmental impact of new devices is to stop making them so frequently because impulse buys at the store happen all the time. See a shiny, buy a shiny.
It’s funny as the only people I know who upgrade yearly are people I have never met on forums lol. I don’t know anybody into phones to the same degree as many here and I tend to upgrade mine at the end of each 2 year contract. I quite often get people saying to me ‘another new phone?’ or ‘what was wrong with your old one?’. Phone enthusiasts are a rare breed I think
iOS is very different than a computer, you're lucky to get app support if you're a couple versions back. An older PC on the other hand will have much less trouble running current programs. Apple has always wanted everyone on the newest OS version. In fact, only this year have they announced, for the first time, to continue supporting an older version.
The iPhone 6 unfortunately had a shorter software support lifespan than devices released along side it, before it, as well as after it due to its specs.
My step mother is still using her iPhone 6 which she has had since it was launched which astonishes me. She’s a heavy user and loves games, social media etc. It’s never had a battery replacement and she seems to be constantly plugging it in to charge, but loves it. That’s value for money I reckon lol.
Well a 12 256GB costs the same £949 as my 8 plus did, but unlike the 8 plus I feel like I’m already compromising with Face ID rather than Touch ID, but there’s no realistic alternative. If the 13 goes north of £1,000 for 256GB I think dropping to 128GB or paying into 4 figures will be a compromise too far, so I will probably have to do the same and look at where the 12 lineup is at after the September event (probably lacking the 256GB option so you have to go for the 13 knowing Apple 🙄).
This rumour sort of makes me wonder if I should just grab one of the many deals on a 12 now (as low as £849) but I want to see what the 13 brings to the table and whether this price increase actually comes off and translates into £.
That's not right, just checked my purchase. I bought the SIM free version and it was $729. I am on prepaid, so did not have an "activation fee". The carrier phones might have been $699 + activation fee, but they made the SIM free version $30 higher to compensate for that.
Er, yes. I think we're in agreement. It's either $729 to Apple, SIM free, or $729 to Apple and a carrier if it's not a SIM free version. But either way the minimum amount that you need to spend is $729, not $699.
Just saying, I think Apple is more on the struggling side as Apple only has 200 billion dollars and if you are in a buisness standpoint especially in Apple's who is trying to muster 500 billion dollars in streaming service, and 200 billion is barely enough to let apple take huge risks as they have so much things going on unlike their competition