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It's a little naïve to think that if Apple gave us a "better deal on memory", it wouldn't also change their whole pricing scheme, as if they would just pass tha
by ethagknight 3y ago
It's a little naïve to think that if Apple gave us a "better deal on memory", it wouldn't also change their whole pricing scheme, as if they would just pass that savings on to the consumer.
Their whole game is hitting their margin, this is how they choose to do it, and a more "fair" memory and storage pricing scheme would merely result and higher prices across-the-board. The power users are subsidizing the low end users, look elsewhere for great deals on memory.
- goosedragons 3y agoThey could still keep asking $200 for the next tier. They used to regularly bump the lowest RAM spec and keep the price the same. DRAM and SSD prices have fallen but Apple keeps the same specs and the same upgrade prices so they're making more money off 8GB/256 GB configs then they were previously. It's getting to point where it's pretty insulting to sell a $1300 computer with a 256 GB SSD that has a street value of not even $30 and ask $400 to bump it to a 1TB when you can easily find name brand high quality fast 4TB SSDs for less than $400.