Yes anything to do with transportation cost increase will affect nearly all other prices
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iPhone 15 Pro Models Rumored to Be More Expensive
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Perfect post sums it all up, but that’s capitalism for you. So long as they make ever increasing record profits every quarter, they won’t change. Cook is more than happy to continue like this. I bet this AR / VR headset thing isn’t that ground breaking and costs at least 2 grand. Although I love my iPad Pro I have to say.
Aldi sales assistants are on £21,164 a year basic if they work full-time. They pay the highest along with Lidl of all the supermarkets as they pay £2 per hour (£11p/h) more than the national minimum wage. The job is more demanding though and it’s a difficult wage to live on in this day and age. Certainly not the sort of wage that enables you pay £1500 for an iPhone Pro.
Don’t get me started on that disaster of a service, the way it’s been left to collapse is beyond comprehension. Needs complete reform, not more managers of pointless things. I have huge respect for those staying in the service saving lives, but not for the managers.
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Yea what sad is the character of workers in service is also their weakness and businesses prey on it
Yep, fair point, scope to work overtime in all the jobs quoted, still low wages and any iPhone would be (potentially) out of reach with the pay we describe, especially when one has kids and they want what all their mates are carrying.
Maybe the people with higher skill sets and degrees should demand better pay from their employers rather than looking down on people earning more than them in what they consider a low skilled job.
I'm not saying fast food requires a high skill set as ultimately you can train pretty much anyone to do the job.
However just because you can train people doesn't mean the person is actually capable of doing the job. I've worked in hospitality for nearly a decade (not fast food) and I've seen a lot of people come and go simply due to not being able to cope in the job. You can train someone but if they can't work fast enough or to a good enough standard they won't last in the industry.
I'd love to see some of the "highly skilled" people who think hospitality is easy to try working the job just to see them panic.
Sales in Japan, one of their absolute biggest iPhone fandoms, is down 69% last year since the heady heights of the iPhone 12 series.
I have still yet to see an iPhone 14 Pro in the wild over here.
I now know of only one person who has purchased an iPhone 14… the “cheapest” model to replace his iPhone 7. But the price was over DOUBLE what he originally paid for his iPhone 7.
Incredibly, it has the same amount of storage (64GB) as that 6+ year old phone.
“Can’t innovate, my ass!”
There is always a limit at which people draw the line, we just haven't found it yet. Their until sales have been dwindling for a while.
I wouldn't even want to try today. Like 20-30 years ago i may have had two difficult customers at McD in four year and one in a few years at Weis. Those would probably be part of daily totals today
Yea you always have the deep pockets that don't even look at price, but you even have the well off that will draw the line, whom I love. My MILs friend is the former, and my MIL is the latter
Almost forgot about this, an outright robbery. There is no excuse for $1000 phone not to come with minimum of 256 GB storage.
Apple did see iPhone unit sales decline after 2015 but they bounced back strongly to a new record high in 2021.
How about we used to pay for OS updates? Now free since Apple made a decision not to charge. and others followed.
Of course a iPhone would cost less now to make. That's progress and all the investment in development has been recovered. Pity house prices and food didnt follow the same pricing curves
Pity house prices and food didnt follow the same pricing curves
Speak for yourself. In Japan:
256GB iPhone 8 PLUS in 2017:
¥89,000
256 GB iPhone 11 PRO MAX in 2019:
¥110,000
256 GB iPhone 14 PRO MAX in 2023:
¥189,000
By that standard, house prices would be up 60% in three years.
So what you are forgetting is the US dollar for some reason has strengthen heaps over time.
Factor that in.
10 years ago we could buy Apple products in Australia for less than US prices.
Now it's almost double.
The Japanese Yen has weakened significantly too, hasn't it, in that timeframe?
This is largely due to the decline of the Yen against the USD starting about two years ago, although it has been recovering a bit in recent months.
In 2019, the retail price of a 256GB iPhone 11 Pro Max was around ¥123,455 (excluding consumption tax) which at the time was equal to around $1,136 USD.
The retail price of a 256GB iPhone 14 Pro Max today is around ¥163,455 (excluding consumption tax) which is equal to around $1,252 USD right now.
The price in Japanese Yen is up a lot more due to weakness of the Yen.
Yes, it's forum post i'm not testifying in court. Who cares?
They start from 128GB since the 13. It took them way too long compared to everyone else, but at least we have useable storage now. 64GB is insanely small nowadays.
Obviously you care enough to make a post, and come to a conclusion with data only apple could know.
It’s been reported the global smartphone market shrank 16% in Q4 of 2022, so its safe to say there is a growing number of consumers who aren’t prioritising upgrading their phones during a financial crisis. As prices rise with any manufacturer, that priority becomes even less of a need. Luxury purchases are always the segments that suffer when money is tight.
I thought iPhones were essential? At least that’s one of the justifications for regulation since apparently people can’t live without their iPhones.