Amaya Toman Almost from the very beginning, the prices of Apple products can be described as above-standard, to say the least. For many people, they are the reason to prefer another brand, and there is constant speculation about whether it is really necessary to sell hardware for such amounts. However, Apple has always been able to justify higher prices and there are plenty of users who are happy to pay extra for an Apple product. One thing is certain - the rising prices of Apple devices cannot be ignored.
Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Apple, spoke at Elon University last Friday. He gave a short speech to the students, which was followed by a space for discussion and questions. One of the students present asked Williams if the company plans to lower the prices of its products, citing a recent report that the manufacturing cost of one iPhone is about $350 (converted to about 7900 crowns), but it is sold for almost three times as much.
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To the student's question, Williams replied that various speculations and theories regarding product prices have been connected with the Cupertino company and his own career probably since forever, but according to him, they do not have too much informative value. "Analysts don't really understand the cost of what we do or how much care we put into making our products," added.
As an example, Williams cited the development of the Apple Watch. Customers had to wait a while for a smart watch from Apple, while the competition was briskly churning out all kinds of fitness bracelets and similar products. According to Williams, however, the company really cared about its Apple Watches, building a special laboratory for them where, for example, it thoroughly tested how many calories a person burns during various activities.
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David Hanak But at the same time, Williams said he understood the concern about the rising prices of Apple products. "It's something we're very aware of," he told those present. He denied that Apple had ambitions to be an elitist company. "We want to be an egalitarian company, and we're doing a huge amount of work in emerging markets," concluded.
Source: Tech Times
Apple has never been an egalitarian company and never will be. I don't even have a real lowend section. Their lowend ideas are in the form of a macbook air for 40k.
So he didn't actually say anything.
Personally, I began to prefer the competition, because Apple makes sunt and backward products. The price is next door. I'll gladly give a bura for headphones, but not if I get a hideous, plastic sunt for it. All the same, I'll pay 40k for the phone, but not when I see that it's being sold on the hw site by a bunch of Chinese for a third of the price. I don't even care about the system anymore. It has been trampling on the spot for several years and there are only big balls in that fabulous "ecosystem". Since the competition has dozens of products, there are no problems with the manufacturers working together. This big advantage of Apple is also a few years in the past. That's the reality.
In my opinion, it's Apple's business, what price they give, either you buy it or you cry here how expensive it is, how backward they are, when ipX came, well, most manufacturers had to have a cut-out in the display and to make it as similar as possible to Apple? and the only one who is retarded here is you who grind shit
In Slovakia, I also do a huge amount of work that they don't even have an online store here, and the warranty repair of a 15" macbook pro for 2499 euros took 26 days at APR. I don't even recommend Apple products to anyone.
On the one hand, I profile myself as an egalitarian company, and on the other, I set prices.
They should define themselves somehow. Either they will hack the prices and make themselves a Rolls-Royce or Ferrari among phones, or they will lower the prices to the level of a volswagen and offer a low-end product in the lower middle class at a price that will correspond to it. No one wants them to pour shit into the world like the Russian Lada or the Romanian Dacia.
Apple = premium prices for below-average products, even multi-generational defective and unusable ones!
It's a shame that the prices are set so high, the normal person is then forced to buy second-hand if you really want a quality mobile phone or computer. Basically, nothing compares to Apple.
I agree with you. My first mobile phone bought for my own was an iPhone 5S, I bought it used, but no one recognized anything. And my love for these mobiles still lasts
Egalitarianism is socialism. How could he say that? The world has gone mad???
Like two sellers coming to me and offering me a phone each with the fact that the several times cheaper one will be either as good or even better (which is the reality when you compare Apple products with competing products) and the other one tells me: You know, but we we put a lot of care into our products, much more than this manufacturer, in addition, when you buy our phone, you will represent a luxury brand, your social status will undoubtedly increase.
So even if the other person was silent, I would choose his product. Apple can only respond to the increasing quality of not only Chinese, but generally Asian manufacturers with an exorbitant price, this is very sad, it only shows its incompetence and ownership. The first MacBook from Jobs was expensive, more expensive than the competition, because it offered the best for its time, but what Apple offers today is middle class at a luxury price. I wonder how long such a policy will last him, how long people will be so stupid and buy someone's product, worse than the competitor's product just because it is Apple.
I am satisfied with Apple products. I don't think the price is high. I have it for work and I wouldn't be able to do it without a Mac. I'm not telling anyone. Buy what you want with your money.