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Will the iPhone 17 Cost More? All the Rumors About a Price Increase
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I suppose most people who invest in the S&P500 and/or the NASDAQ would like the Apple stock to increase its value. If the opposite happens, for example, Apple not increasing prices and despite selling more iPhones having a lower profit, then many people would consider their investments in the Apple stock. That will devalue Apple stock and the two financial indices who share a large percentage of Apple stock.
"If this is how things work", then I guess Apple will increase prices without thinking twice.
"If this is how things work", then I guess Apple will increase prices without thinking twice.
The prices are still the same here so not sure what you mean, but i expect Apple to offset the tariff costs for US customers by slightly raising prices worldwide. iPhone 17 Pro will probably be £1050 in line i reckon.
I think those rumors may be a bit optimistic, especially with the ready excuse of tariffs at hand to justify base price increases. It's clear that the 17 Air replaces the Plus series in the lineup, and I fully expect the 17 Air to start at $949 -- +$50 over the last Plus base model -- just as the Pro models will all start at +$50. The notion that those +$50 models will also come with a slight increase in storage is another obvious excuse to raise prices, so that they're doubly covered... never mind the fact that BOM data suggests that the storage upgrade costs Apple only about $11. (128GB of NAND costs Apple $11, whereas 256GB costs $22 -- and quite honestly, you really don't want to know the rest of the data.)
And of course, it's all about the spin; we can be sure that Apple is going to advertise these as reductions in price, since the 16 series models with 256GB started at +$100 over the soon-to-be-forgotten 128GB models. Business as usual.
I expect any price rises to be worldwide with an implied effective subsidy against the US tariffs.
The alternative, would be for apple to have some kind of arbitrage type situation between markets. Risking growth of grey imports to US (or iphone tourism - esp if there are physical sim phones available elsewhere and for less $ money)
Of those that voted.
When you look at the total U.S. population that are old enough to vote, just baaarely over 1/3 of the country voted for the current situation. Just baaarely under 1/3 of the country voted for the alternative. Somehow, 1/3 of the country didn’t vote. So only 1/3 of the country supports the current situation. Said another way, 2/3 of the country didn’t vote for the current situation. 😉
Argh! My secret lair has been exposed! Oh noes!! I expect hordes of journalists at my door any minute now….
<hours pass by…>
Yep, any minute now… yep..
Hm…
Yep, indeed!
Aye, it was a weird vote for sure. I did a follow-up check and yeah it was 49.8 after attribution was given to Others.
You’ve fallen for the propaganda.
Every time republicans AND democrats are in office they explode the deficit while claiming they can’t do what they promised because of <the other party> except they absolutely will fix it if you elect them one more time.
Google federal spending. It goes up regardless of who is elected. The two party system is a fake dichotomy to distract you from all of things that both sides politicians agree on doing while saying they are fighting the good fight.
Actually, the deficits explode more under Republican presidential administrations. The tend to come down under Democratic administrations. The last surplus was under Clinton.
As you said, both continue to spend, however, Republicans cut revenue while continuing to spend. Plus, every Republican admin since the first Bush has ended in a major recession.
The new range will certainly rise in price.
The USD has slid significantly against nearly every other currency in the last 6 months. About 11%
Apple, who price their devices in USD will need to raise their prices just to keep it worth as much as it did at the start of the year in terms of relative value. That's before factoring in any new tarrifs.
On the bright side, if they keep their pricing constant in every other market, they'll effectively have enabled a price rise in USD terms (because the USD lost value) The question will be whether they decide to get greedy and rise prices in other markets too to compensate. I'm thinking they might be brazen enough.
The USD has slid significantly against nearly every other currency in the last 6 months. About 11%
Apple, who price their devices in USD will need to raise their prices just to keep it worth as much as it did at the start of the year in terms of relative value. That's before factoring in any new tarrifs.
On the bright side, if they keep their pricing constant in every other market, they'll effectively have enabled a price rise in USD terms (because the USD lost value) The question will be whether they decide to get greedy and rise prices in other markets too to compensate. I'm thinking they might be brazen enough.
A bit disingenuous ... to be more correct ... about ⅓ supports the current President, about ⅓ don't and about ⅓ don't give a crap/right to complain or rejoice.
That's the beauty of math: it couldn't be disingenuous if it tried. 2/3 > 1/3, 100% of the time.
How many phones you've bought that cost "thousands of dollars"? I'm aware of one, and taht's a "cheap data-sucking Android phone".