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AirPod Pros are $160 on sale, regularly, and $200 otherwise. M3 Air 16GB/512GB is $1,100 at Costco, and $800 for an M2 (which is probably good enough for at le
by lotsofpulp 2y ago
AirPod Pros are $160 on sale, regularly, and $200 otherwise.
M3 Air 16GB/512GB is $1,100 at Costco, and $800 for an M2 (which is probably good enough for at least 50% of laptop users).
iPhones might be a few hundreds more than a Galaxy competitor phone, but the amortize the extra cost over the number of hours people use their phone and it is negligible.
Apple TV is a $120 or so, Apple Watch is a few hundreds, HomePods are maybe a couple hundred. I don’t see how anyone can put Apple in a pricing league with
> Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bang & Olufsen
Very large portions of the population can afford Apple products.
- pjmlp 2y agoIndeed, those lucky to live in tier 1 countries. Many folks across the globe don't even reach $200 a month!
- GuB-42 2y agoI think that GP meant it relative to the other mentioned luxury products. But honestly, I think many people buy Apple products they can't reasonably afford and end up in trouble because of that. A new iPhone is luxury. You can't really live without a smartphone these days (not just in "tier 1" countries!), but a $200 device covers your basics just as well as a $1000 iPhone. And before someone tells me they can live without a smartphone. I guess you can, but that may actually be the ultimate luxury, that is, it is more expensive to live without a smartphone than to live with one. It is telling that most of the homeless have smartphones, usually Android.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoYou can walk into a mobile phone store anywhere in the world and buy an iPhone SE for ~ hundred bucks
- pjmlp 2y agoWhich is about one month salary in many places.