Apple just Increased Prices: here’s what’s changed

enmerk4r 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wow, I guess no one is immune from supply chain issues. To Apple's credit, I remember the time (a while back) when people overpaid for the Apple brand while not getting as much performance for their money as they would have with other laptop / smartphone manufacturers. Things have really changed over the recent years. Thanks to all the vertical integration, Apple is about as cost-effective as you can get for top-of-the-line hardware. So the fact that they are raising prices is an alarming sign.

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thewebguyd 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What surprised me was that they increased across the current lineup. When Cook announced that they'd have to raise prices, I had assumed he was referring to new launches, as is Apple tradition I did not expect such a large and widespread bump across the whole line up.

	▲	accrual 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Same, I was reading discussion just yesterday that these were expected to go in place with the September releases.

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qsxfthnkp2322 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What a beautiful way for Tim Cook to end his career at Apple. supply chain genius can’t overcome market forces so they can keep a healthy profit margin.

Outsourcing was a great idea for making America, your home, lose. Oh well.

Ternus can’t come fast enough to revamp their corrupt management system and actually innovate again.

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throwfaraway4 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

Tell me who can overcome market forces. Literally no one. I'm starting to think bots are writing these low-quality inflammatory comments.

	▲	qsxfthnkp2322 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe those bots should send micron or Samsung a gold bar and some glass to get them to care about consumers again.

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jaimebuelta 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The configuration I’m interested in (I’m waiting until new M5 models are launched) just increased $1000 :-/

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codazoda 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Studio I looked at yesterday jumped from $2600 to $3400 (30%). I was saving for it and was about 1/2 way there. I was expecting these increases in 2027, so planned to buy late in the year. Apple moved faster than I expected after the price increase announcements.

On the flip side, this makes PC options with GPUs more attractive.

I’m interested in running local AI models.

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cmdrmac 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The price increases are absurd for some configurations. Glad I placed my order for a new mb pro a couple days ago.

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Thomaschaaf 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The average price increase is $269.23.

How is that calculated?

	▲	ramon156 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Markov chains

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ChrisArchitect 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732

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DiabloD3 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a weird way for Apple to admit the Mac is dead.