Uhm.... There are reasons for the price hike actual changes in technology, R&D costs recouped and internal specs bumped. Don't forget to look at windows laptops - the entire market for high-end laptops has increased their prices, BEFORE Apple did. Also, businesses don't act with human emotion. They aren't "greedy" or "irrational" with anything. They recoup losses and make profits, while providing products people will buy. If you won't buy it, they will be just fine.
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Chances of Apple pulling the new MBP trick with iPhone 8?
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Uhm.... There are reasons for the price hike actual changes in technology, R&D costs recouped and internal specs bumped. Don't forget to look at windows laptops - the entire market for high-end laptops has increased their prices, BEFORE Apple did. Also, businesses don't act with human emotion. They aren't "greedy" or "irrational" with anything. They recoup losses and make profits, while providing products people will buy. If you won't buy it, they will be just fine.
By not discounting the previous generation MacBook Pro. The practically raised mac prices across the board.
So let them increase the price as long as the hardware is spectacular ...nothing less
The only reason Apple gets away with that so easily is that 90% of people use either carrier financing or Apple financing to pay off the iPhone.
I have always bought the top model + apple care
This year top spec , apple care and case = £1100..... That's kinda ridiculous given a few years back the entry for me was £700+
Given they have been dodging tax they can afford to absorb it
Or get apple to pay all their taxed and we can a rebate from that pot.
Under cook they stopped all innovation and just milked the product , cook is the same cancer to apple as ballmer was to Microsoft, and both pulled in record sales!
This week Microsoft shammed apple, one company is innovating the other is milking its users.
I've always got the top spec phone and laptop, now that is £5200.....**** that !!! That's a joke for computer gear that is hardly better than the previous versions
I believe apple will release the iPhone 8 early, in June - to coincide with the 10th anniversary - it will be a major upgrade and apple will try to separate it from the iPhone 7. That is why the iPhone 7 is such a small upgrade because they are keeping all improvements for the 10th aniversary. It will be A huge price increase which will help them retain the iPhone 7 without discounting.
More importantly, I believe that the timing will be set to purposefully increase profits. Think about it, anybody on the iPhone upgrade program in June next year will NOT be entitled to it since they won't have passed the 10th month owning their 7.
More importantly, I believe that the timing will be set to purposefully increase profits. Think about it, anybody on the iPhone upgrade program in June next year will NOT be entitled to it since they won't have passed the 10th month owning their 7.
They already did all that here in the UK with the iPhone 7? They kept the 6S, added the 7 with removed ports, sacked price increases on everything..
All in the name of Brexit of course.
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Nope.
Too many carriers and Apple itself are tied in to the 12 month upgrade programs.
For our friends on the continent, did you notice the same price increase in euros overnight in the Apple laptop line-up? I am trying to understand if the price increase here in the UK is due to the rubbish £ or if there is also a price hike, and if they therefore increased prices in euros as well.
The only price hike was in the form of the old models having a couple hundred added but the new model prices are pretty much US dollar -> U.K. Sterling + 20%VAT. If you can shave the vat off then it's pretty much the us price.
Without VAT the price woulda been around £1650 for the high end base model of the 13" with OLED