These iPhones are now very powerful computers that reside in our pockets. I am a power user (whatever that means) and have several Macs, however, I honesty rarely pick up a computer these days and conduct my entire life on my phone. I sign documents , do all my communications, review video (I’m in film), annotate files, and on. In fact, a few years back I sold a building in LA and did every aspect of the sale with my phone. Never needed my Mac. You get the idea. $1000 (or a little more even) for that multidimensional device is amazing. Same price as an entry level Air and does the same as well as all the other phone capabilities in our pocket. Let’s put it in perspective when we are about to complain about price. And yes, I’m typing this on my iPhone. An amazing tool for a grand-ish.
Lame. They already cost enough. Profit margins are very high. And cost to build goes down the entire life cycle of the device.
I’m all about business and profit, but this seems unnecessary.
Apple have reached an interesting point in the lifecycle of a very successful company. Normally the company in question would be defending itself from monopoly-based legal actions, but Apple have avoided this fate due to circumstances beyond their control. They now have a duty to shareholders and staff to charge as much as they can get away with for their product but do it without raising alarm, so people do not start to think they're being exploited and Apple are just amoral asshats.
I agree with your post wholeheartedly. I honestly think the whole "Pro" line of iPhones is a swizz and Apple should consolidate back to one handset type a year.
Lame. They already cost enough. Profit margins are very high. And cost to build goes down the entire life cycle of the device.
I’m all about business and profit, but this seems unnecessary.
Apple have reached an interesting point in the lifecycle of a very successful company. Normally the company in question would be defending itself from monopoly-based legal actions, but Apple have avoided this fate due to circumstances beyond their control. They now have a duty to shareholders and staff to charge as much as they can get away with for their product but do it without raising alarm, so people do not start to think they're being exploited and Apple are just amoral asshats.
I agree with your post wholeheartedly. I honestly think the whole "Pro" line of iPhones is a swizz and Apple should consolidate back to one handset type a year.
Apple avoids being a monopoly "due to circumstances beyond it's control?" That's funny. Yeah, it's called competition. And when your competitor, in this case Android, sells way more phones than you do, it's pretty hard to be a monopoly. Pro tip about capitalism since you don't seem to aware of this: for profit companies, especially publicly traded ones, price products at whatever the market will bear. Competition and consumers ultimately determine "what the market will bear." And which successful mobile phone company do you know that makes one handset type a year? Oh, that's right... nobody.
Over a 24 month period that's only an $8/mo increase so I doubt anyone would really care in the end. Headlines will make a big deal of it but I doubt it'll have any serious effect on sales.
Lame. They already cost enough. Profit margins are very high. And cost to build goes down the entire life cycle of the device.
I’m all about business and profit, but this seems unnecessary.
Apple have reached an interesting point in the lifecycle of a very successful company. Normally the company in question would be defending itself from monopoly-based legal actions, but Apple have avoided this fate due to circumstances beyond their control. They now have a duty to shareholders and staff to charge as much as they can get away with for their product but do it without raising alarm, so people do not start to think they're being exploited and Apple are just amoral asshats.
I agree with your post wholeheartedly. I honestly think the whole "Pro" line of iPhones is a swizz and Apple should consolidate back to one handset type a year.
Apple isn’t a Monopoly anywhere, unless you think a monopoly can be defined as being a monopoly of yourself and that would be crazy EU logic….
Lame. They already cost enough. Profit margins are very high. And cost to build goes down the entire life cycle of the device.
I’m all about business and profit, but this seems unnecessary.
Apple have reached an interesting point in the lifecycle of a very successful company. Normally the company in question would be defending itself from monopoly-based legal actions, but Apple have avoided this fate due to circumstances beyond their control. They now have a duty to shareholders and staff to charge as much as they can get away with for their product but do it without raising alarm, so people do not start to think they're being exploited and Apple are just amoral asshats.
I agree with your post wholeheartedly. I honestly think the whole "Pro" line of iPhones is a swizz and Apple should consolidate back to one handset type a year.
Apple is in no way a monopoly. You need to go back and look up the definition of a monopoly and then please explain to everyone here where and how Apple is a monopoly anywhere within its company from its services, software, or any piece of hardware it sells.
The number of people using iPhone Pro is crazy. Parents give Pro to all of their kids. Last couple of flights and entire families in Economy did use Pro. Teens on the beach: Pro. No problem with adding $100 to it.
No, the problem with Pro is that it causes segmentation to the platform and delays innovation for iPhone. The fact that iPhone is now 1-2 years behind Pro allow Android vendors to copy ideas before they go mainstream and it makes iPhone look bad.
Apple will have to do better with iPhone Pro than Mac Pro and iPad Air. Ever since "beige G3" the cost of Pro increased while sales dropped. Then Studio got launched as a pony car delivering what most needed from a Pro. iPad Air M1... super expensive as it comes with M1 and in 2022 sales dropped to less than 1 in 5 of all iPads. Probably worse today.
Lame. They already cost enough. Profit margins are very high. And cost to build goes down the entire life cycle of the device.
I’m all about business and profit, but this seems unnecessary.
iPhone Pro Maxes have held their price despite inflation and increasing BOMs … not entirely happy about any price increase, but I'm sure the new displays, titanium chassis, hardware Thunderbolt support, and periscope camera will all increase the cost to build a Pro Max (or Ultra).
Rumor has it that the increase with come with more storage (and RAM) so that should take some of the sting out of the higher price.
I'm really looking forward to a 15 Pro Max and am hoping for faster Mac syncs - though I suspect that syncs are dog slow more due to sync logic than transfer speed - though USB 2 speeds were just embarassing. Transfer of bigger photos and videos will be faster, so I'll probably be getting at least a terabyte of storage and will probably be using RAW photos and video more; maybe even check out ProRes video.
Hopefully Apple will keep checksums over blocks of files so that more blocks of files can be skipped during a sync (increasing normal sync speed).
I just wish they'd allow an iPhone to permanently trust a given Mac so I wouldn't have to start any just-plugged-in sync by entering my passcode.
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Apple isn’t a Monopoly anywhere, unless you think a monopoly can be defined as being a monopoly of yourself and that would be crazy EU logic….
No, the problem with Pro is that it causes segmentation to the platform and delays innovation for iPhone. The fact that iPhone is now 1-2 years behind Pro allow Android vendors to copy ideas before they go mainstream and it makes iPhone look bad.
Apple will have to do better with iPhone Pro than Mac Pro and iPad Air. Ever since "beige G3" the cost of Pro increased while sales dropped. Then Studio got launched as a pony car delivering what most needed from a Pro. iPad Air M1... super expensive as it comes with M1 and in 2022 sales dropped to less than 1 in 5 of all iPads. Probably worse today.
Rumor has it that the increase with come with more storage (and RAM) so that should take some of the sting out of the higher price.
I'm really looking forward to a 15 Pro Max and am hoping for faster Mac syncs - though I suspect that syncs are dog slow more due to sync logic than transfer speed - though USB 2 speeds were just embarassing. Transfer of bigger photos and videos will be faster, so I'll probably be getting at least a terabyte of storage and will probably be using RAW photos and video more; maybe even check out ProRes video.
Hopefully Apple will keep checksums over blocks of files so that more blocks of files can be skipped during a sync (increasing normal sync speed).
I just wish they'd allow an iPhone to permanently trust a given Mac so I wouldn't have to start any just-plugged-in sync by entering my passcode.