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Apple CEO Tim Cook warns AI-driven price increases are unavoidable
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AI isn’t driving up prices. Oligarchs are. And they aren’t using their own money but our retirement funds to do it.
Ai is just a tool. One that is being built out because the billionaires demand it. They are already wielding this tool to bludgeon the masses.
Maybe we were askng for it by dressing that way.
I guess there’s going to have to be a law, since the perpetrators just can’t control themselves.
AmyAyeBah, maybe in some backwater European country like Germany or France, no laws in Freedomville™ America, Laws are for COMMIES who hate capitalism!
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sanitationCan’t someone come up with alternatives to ios and android. They got so skummy
if youre from europe you could give jolla (sailfishos) a shot. another alternative would be volla (ubuntu touch). no idea if they sell globally tho.
keep in mind that both operating systems are not widely adopted and you may have issues with banking apps or government id-apps. but theyre the best bet to get out from big tech without using a dumb phone.
Hmm…I don’t own a car so I can avoid high gas prices. I think I can safely stay away from AI and save the big bucks. Forced adoption of AI sounds so “mark of the beast” to me.
Demand for electricity will raise electricity prices, and demand for gas to run the electricity plants will raise heating costs.
Demand for RAM makes the price of even Rapsberry Pi go up. The AI bubble is the tail wagging the economy dog.
Maybe a little, but the rise in the costs of AI will make a huge number of people to stop using it since it’s not that life changing, bringing the prices down again.
It’s everything with any memory or processing onboard.
I’m seeing it in my industry, devices are increasing in price every quarter to 6 months. These all cost businesses more money than even a year ago, and those costs will be passed to us.
It’s easy to call Apple out, but understand that any device in your house with any memory from robot vacuums to home surveillance cameras to routers are all affected by this drain of chips and components.
The_DecryptorWe’re also facing a shortage of the materials for PCBs.
Alongside the existing helium shortage, we’re going to see higher prices for every part of a computer, even without the chatbot hype buying.
Thank God AI is so powerful that we would live in a post-scarcity world! AI is so productive that labor is basically free. Thus making products basically free.
The path Tim Cook(and all his rich friends) are on is going to be unavoidable for them soon enough. Keep pushing AI my friend. The more you push the better the result Tim.
If apple had a 1tb Mac studio, it’d sell so goddamn fast due to being able to run some of the largest open LLMs out there. I’ve been using GLM 5.2 and it’s damn near opus 5.6, the first model I thought was good enough to just write code without intense guidance. 1tb is well within the range where you could run the model on your own hardware. The higher prices are there to head off the deserved intense demand
Work bought me three 512gb Mac Studio M3 Ultras (one for my desktop and two for my lab). I run exo on two of them and can dang near run any model I want if I can find one that runs on the hardware (DeepSeek-v4-flash has been problematic so far). I’m so glad I got them before the prices skyrocketed. Hell I think they even stopped making the 512gb version completely.
ryannathansInteresting how it’s driving up hardware costs and driving down software costs
Why do you think it’s driving down software costs?
I can see it’s driving down costs, I work in industry. Lots of competitors have popped up with AI apps with lower prices. There’s a reason it’s called the SaaS apocalypse
Well as a person who is working as a software developer I wouldn’t be so hasty.
You can write more code, but that has never been a real bottleneck. Understanding and maintenance of this code is another matter altogether.
Add to that the price of AI subscriptions are currently heavily subsidized by venture capital and even with the subsidies tokens turn out to be more expensive than people.
Also no one is calling it SaaS apocalypse.
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/10/fear-of-the-saaspocalypse-is-tormenting-techland
https://www.forbes.com/sites/donmuir/2026/02/04/300-billion-evaporated-the-saaspocalypse-has-begun/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/01/saas-in-saas-out-heres-whats-driving-the-saaspocalypse/
https://www.risingtrends.co/blog/saas-apocalypse-trend
It is very much being called the SaaS apocalypse…
Where are AI subscriptions subsidised for enterprise use? Github copilot was the last to drop the subsidised model for big business at the start of the month as far as I can tell. Only individuals and very small businesses are getting subsidised subscriptions now, and it’s still super economical and cost efficient to use even frontier models at API billing rates compared to humans. A human can work all day on debugging a software defect, or Opus can find the root cause in ten minutes for $20. Sure that still needs reviewing but that’s insane productivity AND cost improvement
This is more of a parallel of the video game crash that happened before. When the video game consoles created a bubble in the US every body suddenly started creating video games, to the point many were so bad they were literally unplayable. When the market got flooded with bad games, people stopped buying games (since no one trusted the quality anymore), leading to a crash in the industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
For my projects, finding the cause of a bug is rarely a problem once it’s reported. It’s fixing it in a way that doesn’t negatively impact things upstream or downstream that’s a pain.
How’s AI supposed to help when we’ve got to negotiate with several other stakeholders on what changes we’re going to make?
So because you talk to people sometimes, there’s nothing AI can assist on? That doesn’t really make any sense
Only individuals and very small businesses are getting subsidised subscriptions now
How is not a single AI company profitable then?
it’s still super economical and cost efficient to use even frontier models at API billing rates compared to humans.
A human can work all day on debugging a software defect, or Opus can find the root cause in ten minutes for $20
Yeah or it can delete your prod database without asking you. Additionally the heavy use of AI can lead to comprehension debt meaning no one can understand it. AI is good if it has the data but usually the data is not only code it’s Kafka and infrastructure and other ongoing outages that may be related and logs.
https://aitoolsrecap.com/Blog/anthropic-first-profit-2026-revenue-breakdown
An article about companies forgetting to set budgets? Wow that trumps the claim that correct application of AI is more productive and cost effective than human work
Why the fuck would you give it full unfettered access to your production system?
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My lack of desire to purchase any Apple product is also unavoidable.
I beg to differ - I will find it extremely easy to avoid Apple’s AI-induced price rises.
Well that just makes sense. I mean, all those baby giraffes they need to feed to the janky, six-fingered plagiarism bot can’t be cheap…
Sounds like they should offer a cheaper, AI free version of products.
This is about hardware prices rising due to AI, not charging a premium for AI products
are you crazy? that would show that so many people could not cive a fuck about AI and would not pay a dollar for the slop machines
can you imagine what that would do to the bubble??
Dear Apple, instead of focusing on AI, can you fix the setup process on new iPhones?
It is a fucking mess, shit has been added seemingly at random to it and you need to do stupid workarounds to activate an iPhone without a physical SIM card while setting up an Apple account.
I am an IT guy, I have to help our users several times a week with setting up new phones.
If you have a new user with a new phone you have to do it like this:
The issue is that for some idiotic reason, Apple puts the eSIM part of the setup after you sign in with your Apple ID, meaning that unless you have a physical SIM card in the phone, you can’t activate an Apple account on the device since you can’t verify the phone number.
How often are you creating new Apple IDs on phones without any previous cell connections?
And why not just create the account in settings after you set up the phone? There’s no reason to reset the phone just to make an Apple ID.
How would s new user with a new phone know this?
Apples and their users assumptions that users should adapt to their tools is baffling to me again and again - and that people are actually defending it.
This year, probably once every other week…