Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs
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The firm's outgoing boss Tim Cook did not say when prices would rise or which products would be affected.
  • espentan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    Hey, boss, I realize 90% of our unit prices are already pure profit, but I reckon we can get that to 95% by blaming an increase in chip prices. Actually, you know what, our users are already locked in an fucked if they don’t buy our shit, so let’s go for it.

    • GalacticRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 days

      Is Apple’s profit margins on hardware 90%? I thought it was still high but around 40%.

      • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 days

        They’re not 90%, yet… But just raise the prices and pass the blame has been in fashion pretty hard for the last 6 years.

        • GalacticRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 days

          They won’t ever get to 90%, they have slowly moved up from 35-40% over 20 years.

  • Law Abiding VPN User@feddit.orgEnglish
    11 days

    Did you know the age verificatiion that apple did within the UK wasn’t mandatory for them? They chose to go out of their way to kiss ass.

    the online safety act would be undone within 1 day if apple sent a message to every UK-dwelling apple device warning them that their apple devices won’t work within a week if they don’t petition their government to undo that bullshit totalitarian surveillance and censorship bullshit

    by the way…apple can just decide to make your apple products not work anymore. They can also remove any app from your apple products they don’t want you to have. 1 update is all it takes.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      11 days

      The fact that apple don’t feel they can do this or a good thing. We don’t want companies who think they are more powerful than governments. It would be preferential if governments were doing things in our interest all the time, but it’s a start.