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John Siracusa

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Because, again, the long-term contracts, the fact that these products are still well within a reasonable window of a long-term contract, and if any company on Earth...

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

has room in its RAM margins to absorb a RAM increase in its Apple.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Because their prices have been, like, we did the math on it a while ago, it was like 6.5 times market prices or something.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Like, they had room.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

They had room in there.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And, you know, I just think these products, this generation, even though they're being released now, these have been in the pipeline for a while.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

I just think these don't, we don't see a reflection of the changes that you just described, Marco, in these products.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And if they do need to, again, with the OLED models, if they do need to absorb that cost somewhere, I feel like they'll shave the cost somewhere else and leave their RAM prices somewhere.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

We'll see.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And this is another quite slightly baffling one.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The storage prices have gone down a little bit, which is only baffling because we're in the weird world of Apple.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Like everywhere else in the industry, of course, storage prices go down year over year because you can get bigger SSDs for less money over time because that's how technology progresses, right?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Not in Apple land.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

They just keep the same prices forever and ever.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The only reason the prices changes, like eventually one of the sizes falls off the end because it becomes too embarrassing even for Apple to ship.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And that did happen.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Like they dropped some of the lower configs, but here on the MacBook Pro M5 Pro and M5 Mac MacBook Pros,

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

A config with a one terabyte SSD is now $100 cheaper than it used to be.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And going from one to two is $200 cheaper than it used to be.