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Apple's Upcoming AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Could Cost Around $199 in the United States
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And charges 3 times as many devices at once...not shocking.
I really, really should start making a list of all the things like this you must bend over for to be an apple walled-garden non-scaler.
If you don't need it or can't afford it, don't buy it. You don't hear people complaining about the price of a Ferrari.
WTF?!!! I hope it drives your car, cleans your house and plays music... oh wait, it just charges things. Such a rip off.
That is, if you've overspent on your phone, overspent on your watch and overspent on your earbuds.
Haha what? This is a charging mat, that’s a terrible comparison.
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Look at all this price shock. Yet hop to a thread where Apple is not ranked number 1 in some market share story and people will gush "but who has the most profitable _________". How often do we post how much money Apple has in the bank like it's some big benefit to us consumers? How often do we put down the profitability of other companies like squeezing less out of their customers is clearly a show of inferiority? Look at a product like HomePod which has already been crowned as the best sounding speaker of its type before any of us have heard it, as part of rationalizing the pricing at 2X or 3X competitor offerings. Look at iPhone X with a price hike of a few hundred dollars yet we can only find fault with an entity like Best Buy seeking one more hundred for it.
We should make up our minds if consumers > corporation or vice versa... rather than flip flopping on subject after subject. Hop back to before rumors were piling up that Apple was going wireless charging and there is a huge pile of posts ridiculing the concept, praising the ease of charging via Lightning and being able to use while charging, etc. What happened to that sentiment? Apple finally endorses wireless charging and so now it is great... but we want to whine about Apple's pricing of it's charger... but later stand in line to buy one so we can claim first and "how did we ever get by with wired charging?"
The path to being the first trillion dollar company is built upon maximizing average revenue-per-customer. Apple has figured out that there can be a lot of added profit per unit sold in accessory products and/or proprietary licensing. We are apparently proud of Apple's rich profitability when it serves some other posting purpose. Why be shocked when it seems so exploitive in something like this?
We should make up our minds if consumers > corporation or vice versa... rather than flip flopping on subject after subject. Hop back to before rumors were piling up that Apple was going wireless charging and there is a huge pile of posts ridiculing the concept, praising the ease of charging via Lightning and being able to use while charging, etc. What happened to that sentiment? Apple finally endorses wireless charging and so now it is great... but we want to whine about Apple's pricing of it's charger... but later stand in line to buy one so we can claim first and "how did we ever get by with wired charging?"
The path to being the first trillion dollar company is built upon maximizing average revenue-per-customer. Apple has figured out that there can be a lot of added profit per unit sold in accessory products and/or proprietary licensing. We are apparently proud of Apple's rich profitability when it serves some other posting purpose. Why be shocked when it seems so exploitive in something like this?
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My daughter was excited about the magic of wireless charging. I showed her this article.
Her immediate response:
"What is this?"
Uhhh... that's a wire.
Her immediate response:
"What is this?"
Uhhh... that's a wire.
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Holy cow, that's insane! Not a chance I buy it then. I see zero reason to. It's a wireless charger, I can just buy 10.00 cheapies off amazon that do the same thing. Oh but I don't get the pretty interface. Seriously.. do.. not.. care! Love Apple but if that price is real, they've lost their minds on this one.
If they charge this much for a charger, I can’t wait to see how much the top spec 18 core iMac pro will be
Day late - Halloween was yesterday. But, still a spooky price likely made to make the HomePod's cost seem reasonable.
Will wait for the much less expensive 3rd party products that will do exactly the same thing and look just as OK on my table -- maybe better.
Will wait for the much less expensive 3rd party products that will do exactly the same thing and look just as OK on my table -- maybe better.
You don’t have to buy anything.....people are perfectly willing to buy a $1000 iPhone.
This is the same irony of people spending $5 a day on coffee but complain about a $10 app.
Except this ain't the ferrari of chargers by any standards. It's just a charging mat.
What are you talking about, the X comes with a sim ejector tool like the original iPhone for the 10th anniversary.
