And somehow you think charging more because people are willing to pay more is a bad thing.
And the recourse for not agreeing with the price a company chooses to charge for their product is simply to not purchase the product. That's why I did not purchase a higher priced iPhone than I did. Simple. No accusations of greed are needed.
In the future Apple has a user base of sub-par 16 GB models with 64 bit processors but not enough space to install a new OS, purchase and keep all of their music on their device, or purchase/use the next great feature that Apple could be first to market with due to their vertical control of the entire product stack. They are shooting themselves in the foot down the road by still having 16 GB as the base model, it should be 32 GB on the 5s and it would have been perfect timing with the 5c which I think appropriately has 16/32 GB options.
Now whether there is ample supply of 64 GB NAND chips, and whether 128 GB chips exist in the quantity and packaging to fit the size and power profile of the iPhone circuit board is another story. At this point I would have been happy with the 5s being just 32 and 64 GB models with a $100 price bump for the upgrade. Maybe they could consider 128 GB for the iPhone 6, it might be a bigger chassis (*crosses fingers*) and have more circuit board real estate and a larger battery.
But my other issue with the memory situation and the $100 price bump is that it co-mingles Apples products all over the place. iPods, iTouchs, iPhones, iPad Minis and iPads. Upgrading the memory makes them more expensive than the next more premium device. This somehow says to me that the memory is more expensive than a larger screen, faster & newer CPU, 3G & LTE radios etc. except that when we see the BOM it just isn't true. So Apple is unfairly marking up the memory and blowing up the differentiators so that it is more important (and costly) to the consumer for storage than the different models. I'm not angry, I'll chose not to buy the more expensive memory options. I merely think this isn't in Apple's best choice, they could be selling more apps and content. It certainly weakens their premium product in real world usability, which can't be a good thing.
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