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The iPad Pro Price Increase does it not drive you guys insane ?

augustya

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Dear Apple Fans and Users,

I am as much an ardent fan of using Apple products as much everyone out here is, But just because people have got used to using Apple Products, people love using Apple products Apple has started behaving like an opportunist, exploitative, manipulative, monopolistic, Blood sucking Tyrant !! I am running out of words here...What explanation does anyone have on the $50 price increase on the iPad’s, on an already expensive product !! and on top of that another $50 increase Holy Christ! Apple has made the customers into a Merry Money Making Cash Cow and just goes sucking on and on…

It is outrageous, it is unethical and it is Mind Disturbing!! As we all have been made to understand it is because of the price increase that Apple has to deal with in procurement of components is the price increase happened of the iPad, but what is black and what is white only Apple knows that. An ordinary consumer like us has no means to find out the authenticity of that statement. This is broad day light exploitation.

It leaves with people like me no choice but to succumb to Apple’s whims and fancies and do whatever Apple wishes just because I cannot live without using Apple products. It is entrapment! Does anyone share this feeling with me?
 
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Did you just wake up? It's always been this way.
And if you cannot live without using Apple products that is your problem. There are other choices.
 
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It drives me insane. 50$ will not break the bank but still, it drives me insane that Apple has me ensnared in their product catalog. In turn, I have ensnared a whole lot of my family members in the same trap.

What is worst is what happens when I try to get out of the trap: sell all my Apple stuff at a loss, buy new non-Apple stuff, struggle with it, realise it is not for me, sell all the non-Apple stuff for a loss and buy all Apple stuff again. So the more desperate I become to get out of the Apple trap, the more I end up loosing!

At this point, I have lost a lot more money than the amount of money I wanted to save by going the non-Apple route. A lot more than the 50$.

Yes....there is a problem.
 
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macjunk(ie) said:
It drives me insane. 50$ will not break the bank but still, it drives me insane that Apple has me ensnared in their product catalog. In turn, I have ensnared a whole lot of my family members in the same trap.

What is worst is what happens when I try to get out of the trap: sell all my Apple stuff at a loss, buy new non-Apple stuff, struggle with it, realise it is not for me, sell all the non-Apple stuff for a loss and buy all Apple stuff again. So the more desperate I become to get out of the Apple trap, the more I end up loosing!

At this point, I have lost a lot more money than the amount of money I wanted to save by going the non-Apple route. A lot more than the 50$.

Yes....there is a problem.
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There you go...same story everywhere...
 
I think it's crazy that a 5" phone costs more than a 12" tablet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Saying one cannot live without this stuff is hyperbole, right? I mean, I like my technology too but I could actually continue living without it. Now air and water.. that's a different story.

That being said, I just upgraded the iPads in my home and am thankful I didn't wait until the keynote as I would have been pretty upset at such an unnecessary increase. Of course, this is also the company that charges over $100 for a sleeve and almost as much for a plastic back cover so maybe we shouldn't be too surprised.

I do feel that Apple's nickel and diming has gotten a little ridiculous lately. Little things like this price hike, the change from a 2m cable to a 1m cable with the 12" iPads, etc. But Tim is masterful in his ability to maximize profits.
 
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Thought the 12.9 was too expensive at launch, and this price spike means I probably won't buy another iPP especially since my usage is on par with my 7+ (not all the bells and whistles and not writing on it anywhere near as much as I thought); but I knew I'd be using it for drawing and light blogging and not much else at the moment.

If I get a job at a University, it may become more of a value for me in aiding my studies.

YMMV.
 
Macalicious2011 said:
I'm glad they didn't increase the price of the 10.5 64GB Pro I will buy today.
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Oh, ok. I was going to say if anything they got cheaper. When I got the iPad 2 the 64 GB version was $700. The 64 GB version of the 10.5 is $650.

Also I now realize it says Pro in the title, so that’d be referring to the 12.9 only.
 
augustya said:
Dear Apple Fans and Users,

I am as much an ardent fan of using Apple products as much everyone out here is, But just because people have got used to using Apple Products, people love using Apple products Apple has started behaving like an opportunist, exploitative, manipulative, monopolistic, Blood sucking Tyrant !! I am running out of words here...What explanation does anyone have on the $50 price increase on the iPad’s, on an already expensive product !! and on top of that another $50 increase Holy Christ! Apple has made the customers into a Merry Money Making Cash Cow and just goes sucking on and on…

It is outrageous, it is unethical and it is Mind Disturbing!! As we all have been made to understand it is because of the price increase that Apple has to deal with in procurement of components is the price increase happened of the iPad, but what is black and what is white only Apple knows that. An ordinary consumer like us has no means to find out the authenticity of that statement. This is broad day light exploitation.

It leaves with people like me no choice but to succumb to Apple’s whims and fancies and do whatever Apple wishes just because I cannot live without using Apple products. It is entrapment! Does anyone share this feeling with me?
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Opportunist: all businesses are. Name a business that is not.
Exploitative: how? iPad is not a primary requirement to live. You can easily not buy an iPad and you will do fine.
Manipulative: how? See above.
Monopolistic: how? Amazon sells kindle fire tablets for cheap. There's Surface Pro as well. The market is full of alternatives.
Tyrant: how?
Outrageous: sure, especially if you just decided to buy the higher storage iPads but decided to wait. Annoying.
Unethical: how? Again, you don't need an iPad to live.

If you complained yet you still give Apple money, well, that's stupid. You're just enabling Apple. And it's stupid to spend hundreds/thousands of dollars just to complain or feel exploited. Talk about glutton for punishment.
 
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imanidiot said:
Did you just wake up? It's always been this way.
And if you cannot live without using Apple products that is your problem. There are other choices.
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What are you talking about its always been this way?

Apple has never upped the cost for a storage increase on an iOS device, when they’ve already established prices, EVER.

At least in the US
 
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It seems a bit capricious to change the price after its release. Like some stereotypical evil stuff-seller at a bazaar: "Oh you like my products now do you? Yesterday you were not so keen... $1000!" -"What?! That's twice as much as yesterday!" -"Don't like it? 2000$!!"
 
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Most credit card companies have price comparison/price matching. I bought my iPad Pro before that $100 off Best Buy and since it was within that time frame I got a ~$100 refund on my CC. I would expect that to be the same with price increases/market fluctuations.
 
Hastings101 said:
What I was thinking haha. It is a shame for other people and I find it annoying Apple raises already high prices that were already overpriced imo, but it doesn't affect me at least
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I was also lucky enough to have purchased on release. However, I don't really see the utility of declaring oneself divorced from the concerns of those who find themselves shouldering this feckless price increase. Saying, in this context, that something that does injury to others is of no bother or concern, it seems to me, is unlikely to reflect the better instincts of those who make these rather breezy declarations.

Consider that it is at least plausible that Apple, in some freakishly unlikely parallel universe, could have dropped, not raised, the price. Would the other fortunate participants here have announced instead their foolishness for having spent more than necessary, maybe saying "I have an impulse control issue. I just had to have that iPad as soon as it was released. So, not only am I out $50, but I just can't help myself but talk about it on Macrumors."

I realize this is only the tiniest of issues, but little pricks at the common good seem often to congeal rather than dissipate, helping to undermine our public discourse and precipitate many unintended negative consequences. I am wrong as often as not, and I am not hopeful of finding positive reception to this probably self-serving screed. Still, maybe we could agree that empathy is generally a good deal more helpful than braggadocio, that union is more helpful than posturing, and if one is disinclined towards either, that circumspection might be a better servant than schadenfreude.
 
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LVdustin said:
I can understand your frustration, but blame everything on the rising NAND prices. The demand is higher, and the supply is shorter...stupid economics
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A cost which Apple could very easily absorb thanks to the already high price on storage upgrades. This is what a focus on profit margins and shareholders looks like, instead of a focus on products and customers.
 
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Yes. I have been looking to upgrade for the past couple of days and had almost pulled the trigger, but decided to wait until later on this week. I was quite surprised to see the price went up. Luckily, my local Target was still selling them at the old price, so I got the last 256GB they had in stock.

I don't really keep up with the pricing of their products, so I didn't realize that they have raised the prices of products even after it's been released for a few months. Is this something they normally do? Even still, if it's because of component shortage, it would have been nice if a statement directly from Apple explaining the increase would have been released instead of doing it while everyone is preoccupied with their new products. Shady....lol
 
lique831 said:
Yes. I have been looking to upgrade for the past couple of days and had almost pulled the trigger, but decided to wait until later on this week. I was quite surprised to see the price went up. Luckily, my local Target was still selling them at the old price, so I got the last 256GB they had in stock.

I don't really keep up with the pricing of their products, so I didn't realize that they have raised the prices of products even after it's been released for a few months. Is this something they normally do? Even still, if it's because of component shortage, it would have been nice if a statement directly from Apple explaining the increase would have been released instead of doing it while everyone is preoccupied with their new products. Shady....lol
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as far as I know, this is the first time apple has pulled this in the middle of a product's cycle
 
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