Pricing looks bonkers written down but I suppose most people just pay monthly amount over x number of years so it takes the sting.
I mean it’s more than their laptops
I mean it’s more than their laptops
iPhone 17 Pro Max is £1200 to £2,000 in UK, which at current fx rate (1.35) is $1623 to $2700.You should put up the Euro and Sterling prices too - show people just how much Apple is overcharging people outside the US €2489 for the 2tb 17 Pro Max!
Bezel sizes have varied in the past: when 10R was the budget iPhone, it had the same curved edge design as X and XS, but larger bezels to keep costs down. Although in that case it could have been related to also using different display technology.I'm reading that both 17 and 17 Pro have the same display size, yet the 17 dimensions are smaller, so the 17 has thinner bezels it seems?
Comparing prices year on year in Europe, on Apple products, there was no apparent increase. Prices even went down when considering inflation (the real kind).Yet Samsung and most other companies don't....
That excuse doesn't wash.
samsung is a korean company
apple is American
there's your difference
Galaxy S25 Ultra 256Gb is $1300 on samsung.com, and £1249 on samsung.com.uk - equivalent to $1,451 before VAT. That’s just over 11% from than its US price. Whatever the reason, it’s not unique to Apple.To give you an example - the base Galaxy Z Fold 7 is $1,999 in the US (pre-tax). In Europe that is selling for €2,049 (tax included).
The 2tb 17 Pro Max is also $1,999 in the US, but in Europe it's €2,489. That's €440 more expensive.
Why are 2 products that are the same price in the US so vastly different in price in Europe? Both companies have the same currency issues to consider.
I posted this several months ago.Galaxy S25 Ultra 256Gb is $1300 on samsung.com, and £1249 on samsung.com.uk - equivalent to $1,451 before VAT. That’s just over 11% from than its US price. Whatever the reason, it’s not unique to
Europe is treated the same way by console manufacturers; it's a common practice to overcharge Europe to penetrate the US market, as if America were the end-all validator.I posted this several months ago.
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The exchange rate has moved even further since then - now $999 USD is equivalent to €853 or so, rather than the approx 911 it was then. That sort of difference is pretty consistent across the board with Apple.
So Apple products are relatively about 18% more in Europe than in the US. That is DESPITE imports to the US being subject to tariffs.
To me that says Apple is cynically using international customers to subsidise US customers and mask the impact of tariffs to them, and tbh that leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I have no intention of subsidising you, so it looks like I'll be leaving Apple again on my next refresh cycle.
There’s a lot to unpack there, mostly nothing to do with what I posted. Sounds like you know what you want and why you want it, so good for you.Europe is treated the same way by console manufacturers; it's a common practice to overcharge Europe to penetrate the US market, as if America were the end-all validator.
I will also skip this iPhone generation, as I have just learned that Apple is still crippling the new models with USB-2, and there is a limit to the amount of cynicism I can take.
That and the "presidential situation", coupled with the cynicism of trying to make us democratic world leaders pay for their fascist boo-boos, have convinced me to try an affordable Samsung for a few skip years at least. At least Koreans know how to whoop their dictator presidents.
I got my Android Motorola phone for free.
You should put up the Euro and Sterling prices too - show people just how much Apple is overcharging people outside the US €2489 for the 2tb 17 Pro Max!
$400 for 1 TB 😂
Except there is an increase in price, it’s just obfuscated by “more storage”.
That's largely because Apple has the performance thing sewn up. Everyone else is playing catchup on that. Most people I know with Android phones cite their reason for going Android is the so walled iOS garden and then they don't do anything that requires them not to have a walled garden! For most Apple users once you've decided on your weapon of choice you really don't worry about much other than colour because the phone will be faster than most other things anyway. Performance become fairly moot after a certain point anyway.People drooling over colour rather than real world performance and next generation hardware, goes to show you who Apple’s target audience is. But go on then lads, quibble about why one is better than the other and why you “got to have it”.
Knobs the lot of ya