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It is obvious. China debt bubble is bursting right now so they are sensible with prices and Apple just have raised them absurdly. China will experience a traum
by hevi_jos 8y ago
It is obvious. China debt bubble is bursting right now so they are sensible with prices and Apple just have raised them absurdly.
China will experience a traumatic experience(growing pains) for getting to a service economy like the rest of the world had.
If Apple continue raising prices they will lose the mass production advantage they have. Steve Jobs always created products that were affordable(like the iPod, or the inexpensive macbook) so it gave the expensive ones mass production components(like accelerometers, cameras, special glass, wifi chips, touch screens).
It seems Tim Cook had the brilliant idea of eliminating low cost products in order to raise margins(that are obscene high right now at Apple), but people are not stupid and alternatives exist.
- tivert 8y ago> Steve Jobs always created products that were affordable....It seems Tim Cook had the brilliant idea of eliminating low cost products in order to raise margins... One of the smart things about Jobs's product structure is that it put people on a position to take a chance on Apple by buying a low-end product, then they could migrate into the more expensive end once they got used to Apple. There's a reason it's called the entry-level, and getting rid of it is foolish.
- positr0n 8y ago> margins (that are obscene high right now) https://wccftech.com/apple-iphone-profits-declining/ https://wccftech.com/apple-iphone-profits-declining/ This article (and everything else I've read online) reports that iPhone profit margins are declining.