As it’s possible you’ll have heard, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max are anticipated to be $100 pricier than the 14 Pro pair. This is probably not a straight worth hike, although, as sources are reporting that Apple can even be rising the storage capacities of the Pro fashions.
The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max begin at 128GB, go by 256GB and 512GB and provide 1TB most. According to Weibo poster Red Lotus Technology, the 15 Pro fashions will begin at 256GB as an alternative and get a brand new high tier of 2TB storage. Korean blogger yeux1122 confirms the brand new 2TB max, however not the rise in base storage.
If you go into an Apple Store proper now you will notice that the 128GB iPhone 14 Pro is $1,000, whereas the 256GB one is is $1,100. If the 2 rumors above are true, a 256GB 15 Pro will prices the identical as a 256GB 14 Pro. Which is nice, except you had been hoping to not spend over $1,000 for a brand new Pro.
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Apple performs this form of shell video games, e.g. the most affordable iPhone (non-SE) in 2020 value the identical as the most affordable iPhone (non-SE) in 2019, $700 in each circumstances. But there was a catch – in 2020 you had been getting an iPhone 12 mini, not the bigger iPhone 12, which was now $100 greater than its 2019 predecessor.
So there was a worth improve, besides if you happen to have a look at it from simply the correct angle, the costs stayed the identical. It shall be fascinating to see how this worth hike, mixed with the predictions that demand for iPhone 15 shall be decrease than for iPhone 14, will have an effect on Apple’s gross sales.
Note that there’s a lot of guesswork concerned in the meanwhile and the storage rumor or the value hike rumor may show to be false (and even each of them). But if costs do go up, they are going to go up by completely different quantities within the completely different areas and a few areas shall be affected worse than others.
Source 1 (in Korean) | Source 2 (in Chinese) | Via