Hopefully if the base is 256GB the starting price of the iPhone 16 is the same as the iPhone 15 128GB starting price. 
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Bring back the gold. After owning so many black phones and so many cars with black interiors I have tired of black and neutral colors in general. So I got the gold 14 Pro. I want some bling to brighten my day!
This is my thought process exactly. I use my phone to manage so much of my daily life from travel, banking, communicating with family & friends, making purchases, taking photographs.
It's such an integral part of my daily life, it makes sense to me to have the best version of it I can in my hand every day.
I used to purchase DRAMs, DIMMS, SIMMS etc. (among other hardware) for Apple until 2014. Let me tell you there are fortunes made during the boom/bust cycles in the chipmaking industry. Companies like TSMC, Micron Tech, Hyinx, and others collude to cripple supply in order to boost margins. Then when prices go up, they inevitably overproduce, causing a glut, and prices collapse. In my 11 years doing that job, I saw prices cut in half in a period of 2-3 weeks, and double in the same time frame. I was able to maintain a fairly stable cost of goods by hedging on futures, but the markets are so volatile it was hard to insure getting the best possible deals without a crystal ball to know how many Apple would need and when!
I know. It still means that prices go up when demand goes up and/or supply goes down.
That's not even remotely true. It works in both directions and always has. There's nothing "these days" that is different than what happened in "those days." The markets are efficient long term. Supply and demand laws always prevail, even during times of ill-advised government manipulation of free markets.
They have been generous enough to drop the charger and the headphones from the package. Lucky those were totally free for them to begin with, and now if (when) I need them I get to pay 50e extra! Yay! Well, even more if I buy apple branded stuff.
The have been raising prices constantly, and when they haven't they have reduced the amount of junk in the package so in a sense they have been constantly raising prices. The end result is that at least I only buy a new phone when I have to. Previously I bought it whenever one became available. Now there's not much change and the prices are just crazy.
It went up because either; your government put the tariffs up, or the inflation (again created by your government) made the Australian $ weaker......It has nothing to do with Apple putting prices up!
How about privacy & security or Face ID, The Eco system, better value retention!
Would you like more?
So you try to get the most for your used iPhone and yet you begrudge Apple the same?
Apple prices aren't necessarily "steadily increasing." For example, the starting price of an iPhone 12 (64GB) was $829 which was the same starting price as an iPhone 13 which was the same starting price as an iPhone 14 which was the same starting price as an iPhone 15 and each (13 to 15) had twice the storage (128GB) as the 12.
Pro models are another example. The starting price of an iPhone 11 Pro (64GB) was $999 which was the same starting price as an iPhone 12 Pro which was the same starting price as an iPhone 13 Pro which was the same starting price as an iPhone 14 Pro which was the same starting price as an iPhone 15 Pro and each (12 to 15) had twice the storage (128GB) as the 11.
If buyers care about monthly payments then they still care about price. Assuming 24 months at 0% APR, $45.79/month ($1,099) would still be 10% higher than $41.63/month ($999).
All to justify spending $1000 on the iPhone over spending $1000 on a similar Samsung.
But, not enough to justify increasing the price of the iPhone with increased competition.
That was a joke about Apple wanting your firstborn as well as your soul. It really didn't warrant a long, serious reply to 'correct' me.
Supply and demand do indeed prevail. You mention government intervention, however you also don’t mention price rigging which is done often here in the USA.
Don't be that guy! Please elucidate and tell us with whom is Apple colluding to rig prices, and what is your evidence?
Yes! That is exactly why I am in the process of leaving Apple. I’ve had macs since the SE classic, iPhones since the 2nd gen, iPods, air pods, max and pros, ihome, watches, etc. I appreciate cutting edge, innovative technology and the ability to customize. I also appreciate value and not being treated as a locked in consumer of their ‘ecosystem’. After building a badass desktop last fall that still blows me away instead of buying a studio, my eyes have been opened. Remember that 1984 Apple commercial where the guy throws the sledgehammer at the movie screen of facist conformity? Ironically, that’s how I feel breaking away from Apples inflated, conformist, bloated ‘ecosystem’. The only question now is OnePlus, S24 Ultra or the new pixel 9pro? Cook has got to go.
And I sincerely wish you all the best.
For me, the Apple ecosystem is still working great for me. I am still happily mirroring my iPad to my Apple TV more than 10 years later. I am still airdropping files left and right, syncing files via iCloud, and just yesterday, the developer of the "Reeder" app dropped a significant update to his app, which I subscribed immediately.
And oh yeah, it's an iOS / macOS only app.
At this point in my life, I want things to work more than I want them to be cheap or open or customisable or whatever it is the competition supposedly does better than Apple.
There's nothing to justify. Like I said - the free market will take care of that well enough.
I obviously knew the "firstborn" sentence in your post was a joke which is why I didn't quote that part in my reply. I did assume you thought Apple had been steadily increasing prices, especially given you had complained about greedy Apple's price increases before.
