Apple’s ‘amazing’ iPhone pipeline is going to have an amazingly high price tag

Ah, summer dog days. Hot and humid days, sensual nights and very few apple news while we are waiting for fall to bring new iPhones.

While we can certainly be able to talk About the iPhone 17 range in the fall, can we allow ourselves one?

Jefferies expects a price increase of $ 50 for Slim / P / P / PM models of $ 50 to compensate for the cost increase in components and porcelain prices. The other potential pressure pressures in India and the sector are not yet included.

Jefferies Edison Lee analyst, as reported @deitaone via x

Due to the Trump administration’s pricing plan (is it still a “plan” if it changes every five minutes?), At least one analyst expects the prices of the iPhone to increase even before Apple ships a foldable.

Even if managers use AI as an excuse to deposit people and AI in fact costs large companies such as iconfactory activity, companies increase prices. And it is not only companies like Apple that import physical goods from abroad, Spotify and Peacock also increase prices.

Macalope wishes to make sure you don’t have to buy a new phone. Honestly, you probably have nothing to buy.

Why do we even pay? Last year, Apple excited the iPhone 16 with the promise it would perform Apple Intelligence. Well, yes, it will. If the company ships the parts of Apple intelligence. People want.

Okay, some people could have wanted to have delivered, as a playground image. Theoretically. It seems unlikely, but it is not completely impossible.

Speaking of Apple Intelligence, let us head to the AI office to find out how It is Going. The macalope should however warn you: the office of AI is in fact an image of slobe generated by Ai-Ai of an office and is a little unstable because it has only three legs and a half, but it has a kitchen vent above for any reason, and is covered with ants? Anyway, let’s go there. But beware of the ants because they were only regular ants, then we asked the AI to solve all the obvious problems with the office, and he just returned the same image, but now the ants were fire ants.

If you hoped to use AI to justify your purchase of an iPhone 16 last year or the purchase of an iPhone 17 this year, good news! According to Tim Cook at the conference last week’s call with analysts, Apple “made good progress on a more personalized Siri”!

Oh, what, is it too vague for you? Well, Cynique Sam (if This is your real name), you will eat Crow on the other side of your mouth when you hear that Cook said:

We are delighted with the work we do in this space, and it is incredibly enriching to see the solid momentum.

So there! Exciting work! In space! Rewarding strong! Momentum? Building!

Aaand He also said that Apple was open to the acquisition of an AI company that can help him.

We are very open to M&A which accelerates our roadmap. We are not stuck on a certain size business …

We managed it! But, we could also use help.

But this is not Apple’s last word on this subject because after the call with analysts, the company held a meeting all the hands during which the vice-president of software engineering Craig Federighi said that when it was an improved SIRI, Apple was “in a position not only to deliver what we have announced, but to deliver a much more important increase that we have planned”.

Not just ants, but but fire Ants.

Personally, the macalope hopes that it simply means that not only will the company deliver an improved SIRI, but it will really work.

IDG

Tim Cook also spoke to Apple employees.

I have never felt so much excitement … The pipeline of products, which I cannot talk about: it’s incredible, guys. It’s amazing …

While Tim is, like many of us, who apparently always tries to get out of the habit of using unnecessarily sexual plural names, he also worked on the way he refers to the Apple Pipeline. Five years ago, he simply said, “We are delighted with our pipeline.” Nine years ago, he suggested that there were “exciting things in the pipeline”. These are all improvements compared to the moment when, at the start of his mandate as Apple CEO in 2012, he said that he was just a “pipeline full of things”.

“We have a lot in there. Some things that I don’t even know what it is. There is a watch. And something speaker? I don’t know, everything is in a spreadsheet that Gladys maintains.”

Despite the big words of insurance, the macalope suggests that when a company probably increases prices (although not by choice) and does not necessarily hold all its promises, it may be time to determine whether this year’s upgrade is suited to you.