Of course it makes sense. Demand barely dips and profits go up.
Will you boycott every company that spreads the tariff globally?
Anyway I’ll see you on the iPhone dispatch date thread.
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iPhone 17 Models May See $50 Price Hike, Says Jefferies
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Will you boycott every company that spreads the tariff globally?
Anyway I’ll see you on the iPhone dispatch date thread.
That has nothing to do with Apple having to recoup their costs to keep their profit margins high to satisfy investors.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max (US$1199) got a base price increase of $100 vs. the 14 Pro Max (US$1099) for example. However, people rationalized it by saying the base storage increased.
I could argue that Apple eliminated the 128GB model... and all other models kept their price...
But I prefer arguing over camera features/functionality
That would lower their margin. I think they will just have the starting model with 256GB with last year 256GB price. This way they could say the pricing remains unchanged for the same storage.
$1199 Pro Max
$1099 Pro
$899 Air
$899 17
$799 16 256GB
$699 15 256GB
$599 16e 128GB
$50? Nah, I bet it will be $100 or more. Doesn’t matter, sky is the limit and the masses will line up for it.
Econ professor is mistaking inflation for salary rise. What matters is how much salary raise you got in the meantime compared to inflation.
In my case it is negative so I have less purchasing power for an iPhone. My guess is that I am not alone.
Easy there peasant! You are dealing with a “Professor”. 🙄
Don’t buy a product from an American company that cares more about the American market than yours then. There are plenty of Chinese companies out there making phones that will not be increasing their prices.
… at least until they destroy all competition and gut your own industry.
Will be interesting how the European press will report about the price hike. Depending on how they justify it, the masses may react completely unexpected for Apple... ¯\_(シ)_/¯
I suspect a lot of companies are going to raise prices, regardless of supply chain tariffs. It is a good excuse to increase profits.
Trump is actually doing great.
Edit: people laugh but offer no reasonable opposition to the statement. Now that’s funny.
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They should drop the price of the base iPhone by $50 and raise the price of the Pro models.
Good grief, at least you could put that in quotes.
An accurate (assuming the rumor is even true) will be to write : ... and Trump's tariffs on the PRC.
US customers will pay more so that their federal government can finance ICE and all that stuff.
Tim’s logic: why waste an opportunity to increase the price globally.
Well they're certainly not going to be calling it the trump tax in the eu. They'll say it's a 50€ price increase because you're getting the best iphone ever made
Your alternatives right now are to keep your current phone and sit out this economic period, or buy an Android phone, whose maker potentially also is increasing prices, but just doesn't have the same media attention drawn to it.
I'm not averse to your argument. For other things, like food, you could avoid some of this by committing to buying from local producers and not large international companies, especially ones with US ownership. I have read of many Canadians intending to do this, for example. We might hear a lot more from Brazil very soon, too.