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iPhone 15 Pro Models Rumored to Be More Expensive
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Apple still has 40-year worth of reputation, customer base, loyalty, IP, brain, legacy, etc etc etc to waste.
Even if AR/VR fail, I doubt it will hurt Apple badly.
The savior, I think what Apple believes, is the younger generation who are more accustomed to Apple products than anything else, and more willing to continue to buy Apple hardware when the time comes.
I payed 1299 € for my 14 Pro and I will not pay more money in the future for a smartphone. It’s already ridiculous to pay so much money for a phone 😂.
The notion that something only becomes premium when the “Pro” moniker is slapped onto it is nonsense. The iPhone itself was a premium product compared to everything else on the market. Most people in 2007 were not paying $600 for a phone period. The masses began doing so when phones replaced PCs as the primary computing device in their lives, and especially once the carriers stopped subsidizing phones.
I never saw the X and subsequent “Pro” line as a new higher tier iPhone. I saw them as the direct successors to the previous flagships, and the base models as a way for Apple to offer a product to those who simply weren’t willing to pay the increase in price.
Yes. I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and I intend to keep it for another two or three years. The incremental improvements to iPhone are not significant enough to warrant the purchase of a new model anytime soon for me.
Those people will have to suffer the price hikes then. The only services exclusive to Apple I use is iMessage and FaceTime. I can video call on WhatsApp now and to be honest, a lot of my friends and family have left iPhone in the last 12 months anyway. It used to be that I didn’t know many using Android and it wouldn’t make sense but this isn’t the case anymore. I don’t have any significant app purchases and use mostly google apps on my iPhone for email and cloud.
I declined to pay £1199 for an iPhone 14 PM because I thought that was ridiculous, so to hear Apple are increasing this further is simply taking the mick. I could just buy ‘the cheaper standard’ iPhone but compare that to the Pixel 7 Pro that my brother uses and I’d be deliberately buying an inferior product perhaps for more money with the iPhone. Apple need to wake up and realise a lot of their customers are normal people and we are in an era where saving money on purchases is a vital demand in the midst of an economic crisis.
The best thing to do is keep using your existing phone for longer.
Cool cool I’ll just continue not purchasing the tablets masquerading as phones
Amusing their supposed solution to “people aren’t buying the cheaper ones” is to make the expensive models more expensive...
Amusing their supposed solution to “people aren’t buying the cheaper ones” is to make the expensive models more expensive...
Which works until its primarily people who don’t care about the price buying phones every/every other year so Apple thinks “people only want and buy the big expensive models” so after a couple more generations they only make the big expensive models so that’s all that’s available and the cycle begins anew.
This argument is as valid as it isn’t, because everything develops with time. If not to stay relevant then to at least keep up with the competition if you want to stay afloat as a business. Times change, tech gets cheaper to make. Making an iPhone 4 now would cost them significantly less than it did back then. Personal value has definitely grown, but it has done so with other manufacturers’ offerings that have reasonable prices.
Product strategy will adapt to buying habits and buying habits will adapt to product strategy.
Tim. Europe will almost entirely switch to Samsung, Xiaomi etc. For almost everybody the will be a price limit for buying an iPhone. Most people over here are already suffering the higher prices.
People won´t buy an iPhone anymore as an brand/fashion statement. Apple is not Louis Vutton or Rolex.
People won´t buy an iPhone anymore as an brand/fashion statement. Apple is not Louis Vutton or Rolex.
I don’t think that is true, I think people will just use their existing phone for longer and when they do need to buy another, they won’t mind so much the higher price. It’s a big win for the environment.
yes, and we were told the cost would be less. But we all know who said it, But what happened months before the 14 series it was an increase in price. As a stockholder of Apple, I don't care, but I am happy that bought 14 Promax. When the 17 iPhone is out I buy it then.
In Europe, there is less habit to finance all purchases. The are still people who buy an iPhone from their saved earnings.
It might be. And Apple has the same mindset as you about iphone purchases. People dont have the need anymore to switch every 1-2 years. But with these prices, I know a lot of people in Europe who can´t afford an iPhone anymore. Not now, not even in 5 years. They simply won´t buy it anymore. They might even not be able to get a finance anymore.
I will do that for sure as my 13PM should be good for a few years. However eventually i’ll have the same issue when I buy my next phone. I’m not going to justify paying £1500+ because i’ll use it over a longer period like some will. I think that sort of money for a smartphone in this day and age is rather obscene.
iPhones I’ve owned:
3G, 4, 4S, 5S, 6, 6S, 11P, 12PM, 13PM, 14PM … which I just sold for an SE 2020
They used to be exciting (remember the 4 leak), there used to be queues, they used to be years ahead of Android
I worked in an Apple Store 2010-11 so I remember clearly, the launches of the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 were absolute mayhem
Mediocrity has killed the industry. Apples soul died in 2011, now you have a once great company being run like a manufacturer of electrical commodities as opposed to products “that will change the world”
Apple wouldn’t have to manipulate prices to offset poor sales if they only sold great products and nothing else
3G, 4, 4S, 5S, 6, 6S, 11P, 12PM, 13PM, 14PM … which I just sold for an SE 2020
They used to be exciting (remember the 4 leak), there used to be queues, they used to be years ahead of Android
I worked in an Apple Store 2010-11 so I remember clearly, the launches of the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 were absolute mayhem
Mediocrity has killed the industry. Apples soul died in 2011, now you have a once great company being run like a manufacturer of electrical commodities as opposed to products “that will change the world”
Apple wouldn’t have to manipulate prices to offset poor sales if they only sold great products and nothing else
Yeah should be good for 5-6 years, just need a couple of battery replacements along the way.