The MacRumors Show: iPhone 18 Pro Has a Pricing Problem

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss potential price rises for the iPhone 18 lineup following Apple's wave of hikes yesterday, as well as plans for the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and camera-equipped AirPods.

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Apple yesterday raised prices across most of its lineup, including HomePod mini, HomePod, Apple TV, the…

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Apple Vision Pro Just Got Even More Expensive

Apple today raised the price of the Vision Pro to $3,699, up from $3,499, as part of a sweeping round of price increases across its lineup.

The change came after Apple's online store was briefly taken offline earlier today and brought back up with new pricing across the HomePod mini, HomePod, Apple TV, iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, iPad Pro, MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini,…

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Apple Just Increased Prices: Here's What's Changed

Apple today dramatically increased device prices across multiple product lines.

After temporarily taking it down earlier today, Apple's online store is back up with a series of product price increases. The changes are as follows:

  • HomePod mini : $129, up from $99 (+$30)

  • HomePod : $349, up from $299 (+$50)

  • Apple TV : $199, up from $129 (+$70)

  • iPad Air :…

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IBM bets on a foundry to scale quantum computing

IBM is moving to turn a decade of quantum-computing research at its Yorktown Heights, New York, laboratory into a scalable commercial business rather than an expensive science project, executives told the Wall Street Journal.

The centerpiece is Anderon, a new independent subsidiary and foundry that will produce the silicon wafers needed to make…

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Trump’s DOJ Backs Off After Trying to Drag Reporters to Court

The Trump Justice Department planned to subpoena journalists at _The Washington Post_ and _The Wall Street Journal_ , attempting to force them to testify before a grand jury for vague national security concerns. The subpoenas were eventually withdrawn this month without any explanation after news organizations pushed back.

This was an extremely unprecedented decision that follows the…

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Legendary Fed chair Alan Greenspan dies at 100

Alan Greenspan, an American economist and second-longest serving chairman of the Federal Reserve, died at his home in Washington, D.C, on Monday morning. Greenspan was 100.

Greenspan served as head of the U.S. central bank from 1987 to 2006 through an era of a mostly prosperous domestic economy, though one marked by numerous challenges, including the dot com bust in the early 2000s and the lead…

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The AI revolution comes with a hidden tax

It was the best of trends, it was the worst of trends. It was the epoch of artificial intelligence, it was the epoch of artificial inflation.

I’m truly excited to be alive at a time when AI, formerly the stuff of science fiction, is now an everyday reality and promising so many benefits to humankind.

AI is accelerating drug discovery, slashing the cost of protein folding research, diagnosing…

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US-Iran peace talks in Geneva postponed

Switzerland said talks between the United States and Iran on a pact to end the Middle East conflict would not take place on Friday, as US Vice President JD Vance dropped plans to travel to Geneva.

The talks were set to take place under the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ signed between the US and Iran a day ago, after the two sides agreed on a 14-point accord on Monday. Under the deal,…

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Report: iPhone 18 Pro Could Start at $1,399 Amid Price Hikes

Apple this week confirmed that price increases are coming across its lineup due to rising memory chip costs, and now The Wall Street Journal has published its own analysis estimating the iPhone 18 Pro could start as high as $1,399.

Speaking with _The Wall Street Journal_ , Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that the company is not immune to soaring memory chip costs. Asked which devices would see…

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Apple scrambles to handle component price hikes

Apple execs are now acknowledging the company is going to need to raises prices to cope with higher component costs, particularly memory. Apple has been battling to avoid doing so, but warned this week that those efforts are “unsustainable.”

The price pressure is being felt across the tech industry. Omdia predicts the average selling price (ASP) of smartphones globally will increase by around…

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Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' Due to Memory Costs

Apple is raising its prices to offset the high cost of memory and storage, CEO Tim Cook told _The Wall Street Journal_. Apple is no longer able to absorb the increased prices and will need to pass some of the cost on to consumers.

"Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable," said Cook. "We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying…

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Unions Are Getting More Popular. The Right Isn’t Taking It Well

For years, the conservative partisan playbook to win working-class votes was to ignore economic inequality and demagogue the culture war. The journalist Thomas Frank published a best-selling book about this in 2004. “The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off,” Frank wrote in _What’s the Matter With Kansas._ “Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes.”

It may be…

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