the "less is more approach" except when they actually give you less while pretending that it's more - this is called gaslighting I'm pretty sure, great work marketing team /s
my dumbass thought u were talking about car wheels but I finished the video and you were referring to the PC wheels LMAO... 700fking dollars so your PC can drive
@@lightworker2956 satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, and ridicule to expose or criticize how stupid people and their vices are. usually use for politics but satires satire. stupid people are stupid people
My grandpa used to buy overpriced stuff from ads that he got in the mail. My dad explained to me that in his generation expensive meant good quality. I feel like a lot of people today are time travellers born in the 1920s
Well, to be fair, idiots who overpay for something extra subsidise the main product and normal people get the main product cheaper as a result. Thanks to them.
This is a true story. A guy I know dropped about $2k on a top end macbook in 2021; when it developed a main board fault 2 months out of warranty and became irreparably useless, he spent the same amount again on another one because he had been impressed by the first one. Genuinely.
Macbooks can keep going forever if you take care of them for then most part. Apple really do make great products. Theyre also great at overprizing those same products. Both can be true at the same time.
Except it's not because the Titanium model has Saphire Crystal Glass, and the other does not.... so in reality the upgrade is all in the glass, not the case.....
@@maythesciencebewithyou *Revelation 3:20* Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
@@maythesciencebewithyou that's outstanding. I'm saving up to take a few more lessons the more you pay alpple the more you can brag to your friends about why you will never go with another brand. Who needs an extra 2 or 3 thousand dollars in their pocket? Oh wait having a meltdown
The first lesson I learned in economics is that there is absolutely no relation between cost and price. A smart seller should always set his/her price at the level that consumers are willing to pay, regardless of the cost.
Sometimes that is even better. Best example are artists who sell very few of their art while it was cheap but suddenly sold out after adding one or two zeros behind it. People want the sense of luxury. That's the whole reason why rolexs, hermes bags and ferraries are so hard to get.
@@LemonsRage And also the prising of luxury brands works in the same way. They dont think twice to sell a 50 dollars product as 5000 dollar. And people even buy it.
There is absolutely a relationship between cost of production and price - with very, very few exceptions e.g China dumping products in US market to destroy foreign businesses
@@LemonsRage Not exactly. The art market is not the same as the luxury brand market. Luxury brands work with limited editions to keep their regular customers interested. The official stores will sell the watches/cars at the same price as the "regular" editions/models. Basically handing over a watch for 10k that could be auctioned off for 100k+. But to get such an offer you have to first buy 10 "normal" watches. That is why they are so hard to get. It is intentionally created scarcity.
Somehwere in 2028…at Apple : Soo how could we increase the profit with iphones ? …euhem lets introduce the Iphone Ultra for +1000$ more than the iphone pro 🥴 those fools will buy it anyway !!!
Lesson 6: solder everything. That way, when your display bricks because of a faulty $10 ribbon cable you can’t just swap out a ribbon cable, you have to swap out the whole $700 display. Genius.
In the UK we have various slang terms for different amounts of money. Lady Godiva = £5, score = £10, ton = £100, bag of sand = £1000.... I herby put a motion forward to call $200/£200 an "apple".
@@ploed well in the UK we use both, we have the metric system for everyday measurement, we use miles to determining distance mph the reference speed , we use stone lbs and KG for weighing… we have drop the shillings from the currency … the Euro has been rejected… but the way digital currency is going and tap to pay…. We will ALL be using the same credits system in 20 years 😂
@@vyaschakravarthy9337 The grift has been going for two decades. Their customers are not going to learn. In fact I think they deliberately pick prices to weed out people who might further down the line realize they're being ripped off. Kind of like how scammers send emails out with typos on purpose, because they don't want people who can spot typos to waste their time.
You can't directly compare the price of a PC SSD with an SSD small and compact enough to fit into a handheld device. Having said that, Apple's pricing policies are still criminal.
@@rubenmahrla9800 "You can't directly compare the price of a PC SSD with an SSD small and compact enough to fit into a handheld device." Correct - a PC SSD is faster, more reliable and not hardware-locked to the Device. Also as it is a fully functional product on its own it is more complex and costlier to produce.
@@rubenmahrla9800 It's called an NvME drive, and yea, they're that small on any platform. Look at the 2230 size, and yup, they're reasonably priced even for large capacity.
Not too long ago i got an Infinix phone for around $180. Not the fastest, most amazing phone but for the price it comes with so many 'goodies' in the box: charger (well, I would hope so, right, Apple??), earphones, a screen protector, and even this piece of thick paper that looks like a dollar which is some sort of membership to the Infinix X Club. These little things don't cost much but it gives the consumer a feeling of getting so much value for their money. Granted, the phone's loudspeaker started to have issues about a year later and the fingerprint sensor conked out too, but maybe i just got a lemon. This is not to say that infinix is good or bad, but you gotta appreciate the effort.
> Bought a phone for $180 > Granted, the phone's loudspeaker started to have issues about a year later and the fingerprint sensor conked out too Sounds like you got what you paid for.
Ecosystem. For example I hate windows, and do not use my PC for anything else than gaming. Then if i need to get smartphone, i have 2 options. High-end android which is going to be full with third party staff, or iphone which is going to have the same settings, menu and options exactly as Mac from box without nees to have sparate accounts, users, software, configurations, and many more. That is the reason. People do not want spend time doing more actions. They just want to start using. That is why it is hard to change ecosystem. Because ecosystem will always work better than combination of different products. For this reason, the time person will spend doing configs, dowloading separate app for each android staff, charged by apple as money. Like whether you pay, or spend your time, which you can use to make money or for family. However, using iPhone with windows is nightmare. For microsoft dudes better to use android only.
yes, especially in Europe. $999 iphone must be converted into euros. The formula for this is $1 = 1€ and for the conversion we calculate 200€. so the basic iPhone for $999 in Europe becomes the price 1,199€. Thank you Apple 🍏
Somehow Apple needs to account for constantly being sued and harassed by the European Commission making up some weird nonsense (thanks for forcing Apple to switch to the inferior USB C port on phones…)
I already knew all of this, but looking at this video, and seeing it being said so nonchalantly and in your face...god, apple is crazy. And their customers really eat their shit up unironically, that is honestly amazing.
i hate apple with passion but man, i also dislike stupidity so i can't even blame them. i mean, ,i probably couldnt resist selling them that shit either
Yup, I bought a S24+ a couple weeks ago. It had one USB-C cable included, but not the adapter that plugs into the electrical outlet. So, I guess technically you can charge it with what you get in the box if you have something with a USB-C socket that you can plug that cable into. However, they did not include the adapter which plugs into the wall outlet, and that is what I think most people are talking about when they say they don't include chargers anymore. In the past you got the cable AND the plug to stick into the wall.
My wife wondered why I was so adamant about not buying Apple, Samsung, or Google phones when upgrading. Went with Motorola Edge 2022 (despite being in 2024, ATT didn't offer the 2023 or 2024 options as upgrades /shrug) and I'm very happy with it. A quarter of the price to do everything the same.
@@dkcwenge yeah, not defending Apple, but the bulk material cost is a fraction of the total. The extra time and tooling costs to make a complex rounded shape like that would probably 10x the cost of manufacture.
People buy apple because they don't understand how phones work, all they know is apple is the most popular and is more expensive meaning it must be better.
*Revelation 3:20* Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
For the luxury or hobby watch market, 200 is a reasonable price for titanium. But the apple watch is designed to be disposed of every few years. This is what makes it expensive.
I would buy their stock if I were to go back to the 90s with a timemachine, but buy Apple products and pigeonhole myself into their overpriced ecosystem? Nah
Apple wasn't always sht, the early iPods were actually good. Had a 360gb brick one for years, took a beating and the battery lasted well - actually got my money's worth and nothing else did that at the time. Anything newer than that I wouldn't touch with a 10ft barge pole tho.
Similar but took the other "fork in the road" having seen Apple’s (then) far-superior user experience and competitors’ feverish endeavors to replicate, some under NDAs as the technology planner for a state government.
I remember, back in the 60s, (yes, I'm that old) I worked on a Honeywell computer. In the pricing, there was an item called "series 200 adapter". I asked an honest salesman what that was and he said it did not exist.
This price policy is nothing more than pathetic... 1000$ for a fkcing stand, they are out of their "mind" - and with them i mean people who buy this shit, in addition to a 5k monitor 🤦♂
Hold up. Machining aluminum is super fricking easy. It's one of (if not THE) easiest metals to machine. Titanium is one of the hardest metals to machine. It's not as simple as a $10 price difference in materials.
@@jxmai7687 I highly doubt titanium would be as notoriously difficult to machine if it was a simple matter like that. Though I know next to nothing about the subject. Though it is so notorious to machine, even I knew about it.
@@jxmai7687 It's not as simple as just using a different "cutting tip" for Titanium. Machining titanium has various intricacies that need to be accounted for, such as it being prone to work hardening if your speeds and feeds are wrong or if you prematurely back out of a cut, it dulls most tooling very quickly, it overheats tooling, it is far more prone to chatter, it can catch fire when machined, the benefit of coolant is much higher, and machining aluminum is just slower overall.
In under 6 mins, we can all graduate a masterclass for the subject of *_"Apple's Marketing, Mathematics & Pricing."_* It's a win-win for us all! TQ Sam Tucker! 🥳
I am so relieved that I never wasted my money on an apple product in my life, I've always hated the iPhones because why buy such a restricting phone when you can buy a much more durable and affordable one that will last twice as long...
@@MattIMp-n5f Ok, it’s a marketing product where they suck you in, get your kids addicted, sell your data and break into your house when you go on holiday*. The hardware and software are free. * might have made that bit up
Sir it seems you didn't take apple class properly it's 100x the manufacturer cost and recycling of materials to lower the cost even further so you looking 10x of that percentage so you looking at 1000x of the manufacturer cost at the end
The watch band with my Apple Watch 9 (recycled) contained enough industrial garbage that I had allergic reactions to it. All my previous apple watches had bands I couldn't even feel. It took nearly a year to find a decent band that didn't fall apart.
@@shadesoftime Functionally better than my Galaxy Watch 4 Classic or my Garmin, though I'm keeping an eye open for a high-end Garmin on sale eventually. I started dipping my toes into the Galaxy ecosystem last year in response to some stupidity with Apple navigation and music functions getting deeply unreliable.
Just by looking at the thumbnail, the big lesson I learnt immediately is to always carve a bitten apple logo on whatever product I'm about to sell for extra profit
@@deadaimusic1889 Counting on the morality of people is not a bet that should be taken these days. However it's not necessarily sociopathic, it's simple greed and it's very widespread.
@@deadaimusic1889 Large part of the blame lies on consumers (especially in the US market) whom would rather spend hundreds of dollars extra either just for the perceived prestige of having a logo of an apple with a bite taken out of it on your electronics, or out of being too ignorant to look around for alternatives (such as Android), and because "everyone else has Apple so I must have Apple too". You cannot change the world. People like this will always make up the vast majority of society, no matter your efforts, so might as well exploit them because frankly, that's what they deserve.
Apple is master of marketing. I've worked for them for 3 years and it's really ALL psychologisch. First lesson; - iPhone (= i phone... so i. I = "me" and me = most important, meaning people will always do whats best for them) - Making a phone heavier than necessary (heavy equipment = often related psychologically to better equipment) That's why 'iPhone users often find Android shockingly light weighted and 'cheap') - Their devices work PERFECT... if you own ALL of them. If not, you will find obstacles which make the boundry lower for you to invest in other Apple devices - etc
Their sales training is also AMAZING... I'm not allowed to say it all, but there are: - clues about body language which we have to pick up - products are placed in xyz-position to make people ACTIVELY do a bodylanguage clue.... (if you can't understand this, learn it somewhere else) - products are heavily priced (expensive = must be good... like a Rolls Royce is 'better' than a Suzuki Swift. Even though both could last the same miles) - their sales technique due to fake interests in your life, hobbies, grandkids their shoe sizes... it's all part of 'upselling' later on. And funniest thing to me... Steve Jobs (former CEO when I was working for them) was NOT AN INVENTOR he literally stole old ideas and rebranded them. Marketing = KEY.
And at last but not least... they are LITERALLY targeting dumb people. Don't get me wrong, I do not DISRESPECT people with Apple devices, I just tell them that Apple targets those who are easiest to influence. Business people (materialism), kids (easy to use OS) and 'avg Joe' (easy OS). Because Android can 'do too many things you will never use' while Apple takes away things you should be able to use (external Apps, waking up with adjustable music as alarm...not just default sounds, etc) So they have the perfect marketing and products.. Expensive. Easy marketing. Short words. Great designed website. Just to sell.. A 27" screen. iMac... but without the Mac.
People who buy Apple are the same people who will spend nearly $10 on a cup of coffee at Starbucks ... just so they can walk around with a logo ... 🤦♂🤑🤣
Or people like me, who just can’t stand Windows. Microsoft’s absolute trash is responsible for at least half of Apple’s market cap. I don’t want to pay $3500 for an editing laptop, but WTF Widows is nearly un-usable for creative stuff.
Airpods & Airpods pro. The last gen regular air pods had a magsafe case that will stick to a vertical mounted charger. The newest regular air pods with wireless charging does have some magnets in the back but they do not connect to the apple magsafe charger puck at all.
Apple are such inspirations, they have now inspired me to make my own company called Orange. I will take their strategies to the next level, I will sell them Orange smartphones for $5000 and when they open the box it will be empty, the smartphone is sold separately! Thank you apple.
yeah but then you cant say you own an apple monitor. wouldnt want to look like a DIRTY POOR would you?? anyways, im going to go drive to starbucks in my tesla now.
On the surface, it seems like you're absolutely right, but I disagree on the point about pricing. The reason is that Apple employs dozens of senior software engineers for anc so why they produce a technology they couldn't profit? It is not charity and just like they do for design, durability, and other aspects. Beyond just the material costs, the salaries of these employees are significant. Apple has to not only ensure that its workforce is well-compensated but also make a profit. And as the company grows larger, it becomes harder to match the lower prices of other manufacturers for things like watch bands of similar material quality. As a senior software engineer, I can say that Facebook, Google and Apple not only produce a product but also improve the mind behind the product.
Consider that in the 80s, phones were almost as rare as spacecrafts. So no.. looking at the mass production and availability they have to be priced as rice.
“By taking away, we’re adding so much more” is the most Apple statement I’ve ever heard lol
taking from idiots and adding them to their share
the "less is more approach"
except when they actually give you less while pretending that it's more - this is called gaslighting I'm pretty sure, great work marketing team /s
@Ballen1182 You know that there are many not 9 year old phones that have the headphone jack?
@@M1szS Indeed. My brand new Sammy has one. I just don't buy the idiot versions (eg £500 or more).
And sheep's still spend money on it
One wheel = $99. Second wheel +$200. Third wheel +$200. Fourth wheel +$200. Hence $699 for 4 wheels.
make sense
You nail it! 🤑🤣🤣
good job, you have master this class, now you can suck dry your costumers
Buy 1 wheel at a time and only pay $400?
my dumbass thought u were talking about car wheels but I finished the video and you were referring to the PC wheels LMAO... 700fking dollars so your PC can drive
It's at the point where the satire is reality lol.
Dark times these are indeed, dark times.
Satire? What satire?
@@lightworker2956 satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, and ridicule to expose or criticize how stupid people and their vices are. usually use for politics but satires satire. stupid people are stupid people
The jokes write themselves
@@buffwafflemann379 he means, that this isn't satire, it is reality!
My grandpa used to buy overpriced stuff from ads that he got in the mail. My dad explained to me that in his generation expensive meant good quality. I feel like a lot of people today are time travellers born in the 1920s
To be fair expensive did use to mean good quality. We used to say "pay a lot once or pay less more often".
Well, to be fair, idiots who overpay for something extra subsidise the main product and normal people get the main product cheaper as a result. Thanks to them.
@@andreys7729 in theory maybe, but i don't believe that companies like Apple would make their other products cheaper.
@@andreys7729That's not how it works, see Apple
That rule still applies generally.
Apple is just the exception to the rule.
Because apple is of course, exceptional.
This is a true story.
A guy I know dropped about $2k on a top end macbook in 2021; when it developed a main board fault 2 months out of warranty and became irreparably useless, he spent the same amount again on another one because he had been impressed by the first one.
Genuinely.
It's genuinely a cult at this point.
I think you meant *Genius
I'd be willing to bet that Apple randomly build in obsolescence so that random machines can be broken remotely in order to increase their sales.
Mine is from 2015 and still working perfectly. Let's not generalise on a single example 😊
Macbooks can keep going forever if you take care of them for then most part.
Apple really do make great products. Theyre also great at overprizing those same products. Both can be true at the same time.
Loved that last shot of the $1000 phone next to a $1000 monitor stand...
you should see the apple polishing cloth for 19$ 😂
@@riotman3579 Is it good for polishing knobs?
@@riotman3579 that cloth is made out of a cut piece of fabric that costs them 30 cents from China lol
@@riotman3579 Oops! Sorry it seems our representatives missed a number! the price was now correctly updated to 199$
@@riotman3579Is that real thing? 😂
Sure enough I paid $200 for this class! Thank you teacher!
That's 200 per lesson
Except it's not because the Titanium model has Saphire Crystal Glass, and the other does not.... so in reality the upgrade is all in the glass, not the case.....
@@maythesciencebewithyou
*Revelation 3:20*
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless.
Revelation 22:12-14
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Yes i just got the rest of the bills. I feel even better knowing i paid for quality!@@maythesciencebewithyou
@@maythesciencebewithyou that's outstanding. I'm saving up to take a few more lessons the more you pay alpple the more you can brag to your friends about why you will never go with another brand. Who needs an extra 2 or 3 thousand dollars in their pocket? Oh wait having a meltdown
The 200 dollars run got me 😂😂😂
At this point, I’m starting to think that is minimum price of lunch for Apple employees in their HQ
those wheels were 200$ each, but the fourth one was only 99$!
@@ciaccodavide a got love the get three and get 50% of your fourth wheel
$700? Huh 😂
"...we are in the black 200 dollars" HAHA
The first lesson I learned in economics is that there is absolutely no relation between cost and price. A smart seller should always set his/her price at the level that consumers are willing to pay, regardless of the cost.
Sometimes that is even better. Best example are artists who sell very few of their art while it was cheap but suddenly sold out after adding one or two zeros behind it. People want the sense of luxury. That's the whole reason why rolexs, hermes bags and ferraries are so hard to get.
@@LemonsRage And also the prising of luxury brands works in the same way. They dont think twice to sell a 50 dollars product as 5000 dollar. And people even buy it.
There is absolutely a relationship between cost of production and price - with very, very few exceptions e.g China dumping products in US market to destroy foreign businesses
Gü pudding in the UK. They raised their prices and found they sold more. People assume more expensive must be better.
@@LemonsRage Not exactly. The art market is not the same as the luxury brand market. Luxury brands work with limited editions to keep their regular customers interested. The official stores will sell the watches/cars at the same price as the "regular" editions/models. Basically handing over a watch for 10k that could be auctioned off for 100k+. But to get such an offer you have to first buy 10 "normal" watches. That is why they are so hard to get. It is intentionally created scarcity.
In a word: Mindless consumers
that's 200 words
@@VitorSantos-jm8tbthat's 200 dollars a word
Apple + Math = $200
Somehwere in 2028…at Apple : Soo how could we increase the profit with iphones ? …euhem lets introduce the Iphone Ultra for +1000$ more than the iphone pro 🥴 those fools will buy it anyway !!!
*iMath
After Tim Cook announced that he was gay, Samsung CEO said he was also gay... And waterproof.
Waterproof your gays for safe keeping.
I mean I’m not surprised Tim even managed this without being Steve’s lover at the first place
Is he really?
@@levipb1403only his boyfriend knows for sure.
@@levipb1403yes, he came out in like 2015
what a nice masterclass. I'll be expecting my $200 bill for this
No, base price is $999, +$200 is for the course materials printed on paper.
X that by 10 and yoi owe use 2000$ and another 200$ for knowing this monthly
“What is this gold? No it’s marketing.” 😂😂😂😂😂
Lesson 6: solder everything. That way, when your display bricks because of a faulty $10 ribbon cable you can’t just swap out a ribbon cable, you have to swap out the whole $700 display. Genius.
In the UK we have various slang terms for different amounts of money. Lady Godiva = £5, score = £10, ton = £100, bag of sand = £1000.... I herby put a motion forward to call $200/£200 an "apple".
Score = £20, Pony = £25 and Monkey = £500
Like, Stones, Feet, Miles?
They just don't like simple numbers...
@@ploed well in the UK we use both, we have the metric system for everyday measurement, we use miles to determining distance mph the reference speed , we use stone lbs and KG for weighing… we have drop the shillings from the currency … the Euro has been rejected… but the way digital currency is going and tap to pay…. We will ALL be using the same credits system in 20 years 😂
who told you a score was 10 quid haha?
“By taking away, we’re adding so much more” 🗣🔥🔥🔥
🗣️💩💩💩
my god, you had me laughing out loud with the $200 bit. Worst part is that it totally works out for them irl
Not everytime it works. If the people realize what they are paying for and what they are getting, it will become a tectonic shift
@@vyaschakravarthy9337thing is, people buy apple stuff not because of what they're getting for the money but because of the brand
@@vyaschakravarthy9337 we are talking about apple's costumers, you think that they will ever realize?
@@vyaschakravarthy9337 The grift has been going for two decades. Their customers are not going to learn.
In fact I think they deliberately pick prices to weed out people who might further down the line realize they're being ripped off. Kind of like how scammers send emails out with typos on purpose, because they don't want people who can spot typos to waste their time.
@@vyaschakravarthy9337 Honestly, I don't think apple fankids care.
Funny Thing is you can get 2terabytes of SSD for 200 bucks 😂 5:02
You can't directly compare the price of a PC SSD with an SSD small and compact enough to fit into a handheld device.
Having said that, Apple's pricing policies are still criminal.
In fact still can make big profit from it because its supply cost was very low for apple.
@@rubenmahrla9800 "You can't directly compare the price of a PC SSD with an SSD small and compact enough to fit into a handheld device."
Correct - a PC SSD is faster, more reliable and not hardware-locked to the Device. Also as it is a fully functional product on its own it is more complex and costlier to produce.
And what about extra storage for your Apple PC??
@@rubenmahrla9800 It's called an NvME drive, and yea, they're that small on any platform. Look at the 2230 size, and yup, they're reasonably priced even for large capacity.
Not too long ago i got an Infinix phone for around $180. Not the fastest, most amazing phone but for the price it comes with so many 'goodies' in the box: charger (well, I would hope so, right, Apple??), earphones, a screen protector, and even this piece of thick paper that looks like a dollar which is some sort of membership to the Infinix X Club.
These little things don't cost much but it gives the consumer a feeling of getting so much value for their money. Granted, the phone's loudspeaker started to have issues about a year later and the fingerprint sensor conked out too, but maybe i just got a lemon.
This is not to say that infinix is good or bad, but you gotta appreciate the effort.
> Bought a phone for $180
> Granted, the phone's loudspeaker started to have issues about a year later and the fingerprint sensor conked out too
Sounds like you got what you paid for.
I really do not get why people keep buying apple stuff
Show off ...to look rich.
Brand loyalty and status, some people buy an iPhone to be seen with it
Because there are more stupid people than smart people in this world
They're sheeps
Ecosystem. For example I hate windows, and do not use my PC for anything else than gaming. Then if i need to get smartphone, i have 2 options. High-end android which is going to be full with third party staff, or iphone which is going to have the same settings, menu and options exactly as Mac from box without nees to have sparate accounts, users, software, configurations, and many more. That is the reason. People do not want spend time doing more actions. They just want to start using. That is why it is hard to change ecosystem. Because ecosystem will always work better than combination of different products. For this reason, the time person will spend doing configs, dowloading separate app for each android staff, charged by apple as money. Like whether you pay, or spend your time, which you can use to make money or for family. However, using iPhone with windows is nightmare. For microsoft dudes better to use android only.
yes, especially in Europe. $999 iphone must be converted into euros. The formula for this is $1 = 1€ and for the conversion we calculate 200€. so the basic iPhone for $999 in Europe becomes the price 1,199€. Thank you Apple 🍏
european prices include tax
Europe including 19-25% VAT and the introduction price hasn’t changed since IPhone X
US is excluding sales tax
Somehow Apple needs to account for constantly being sued and harassed by the European Commission making up some weird nonsense (thanks for forcing Apple to switch to the inferior USB C port on phones…)
@@ssmurf2990 yes and the euro is also worth more than the dollar.
@ABaumstumpf Not in most of Europe it isn't
I already knew all of this, but looking at this video, and seeing it being said so nonchalantly and in your face...god, apple is crazy. And their customers really eat their shit up unironically, that is honestly amazing.
Stupid doesn't know it's stupid.
i hate apple with passion but man, i also dislike stupidity so i can't even blame them. i mean, ,i probably couldnt resist selling them that shit either
Bruh nah Samsung did stop including chargers screw both y’all 😭 0:20
no they did not hahahha at least not in Brasil
They still give cords here, at least
Yup, I bought a S24+ a couple weeks ago. It had one USB-C cable included, but not the adapter that plugs into the electrical outlet. So, I guess technically you can charge it with what you get in the box if you have something with a USB-C socket that you can plug that cable into. However, they did not include the adapter which plugs into the wall outlet, and that is what I think most people are talking about when they say they don't include chargers anymore. In the past you got the cable AND the plug to stick into the wall.
My wife wondered why I was so adamant about not buying Apple, Samsung, or Google phones when upgrading. Went with Motorola Edge 2022 (despite being in 2024, ATT didn't offer the 2023 or 2024 options as upgrades /shrug) and I'm very happy with it. A quarter of the price to do everything the same.
4 wheels, thats 700 dollars. That made me laugh so hard for some reason
The price of the stand is hilarious XD
To everyone in this chat, I just want to let you know that *Jesus loves you* and he can *save you from sin,* sadness and sickness.
@@JesusPlsSaveMe but can he save Apple?
@@persperspersp2866 nope, even all Super Best Friends won't help!
yeap 😂
For the price of one iStand you can buy idonno 5x-6x used 4K 32" monitors?) that's insane!
@@-mrws-u can buy a 4k OLED LMAO
$200 for just the titanium upgrade is insane.
afaik it's not even an upgrade, since the titanium casing is actually pretty sensitive to impact..
titanium is actually a lot more difficult to machine than aluminum. so i understand the price increase. but yeah, a completely unnecessary "upgrade"
@@dkcwenge yeah, not defending Apple, but the bulk material cost is a fraction of the total. The extra time and tooling costs to make a complex rounded shape like that would probably 10x the cost of manufacture.
Are we sure this isn't an actual Apple training video?
Absolutely crazy this predatory company hasn't been investigated for anything other than the Type C charging lol. Insane
People buy apple because they don't understand how phones work, all they know is apple is the most popular and is more expensive meaning it must be better.
"times that by twenty and we'll call it a day" 😂🤣
And after all of that... we are still $3 dollars short 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Magnifique! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's the cost for the glue obv
Cuz our customers are paying for new products, doesn't mean ya have to give them anything new!! 😂😂😂😂😂 classic!
*Revelation 3:20*
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless.
Revelation 22:12-14
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Apple in 2025: Everything is FREE! (each item is a low cost of $200 per month, minimum of 24 months blood contract)
You forgot to add that, if you cancel early, there is an early termination fee of $199.99 per month for the lifetime of the service.
"How much do you charge for the iMath Masterclass?"
"$200.00"
Never bought an apple product, never will. There are always better options
😂😂 "that's a titanium 200!"
Every time I think that Sam can’t get any better, I see videos like this - really excellent work 😂
Yeah but he’s done this video like 6 times lol, aPpLE pRiCeS r CrAzYyY
This video is priceless. Gold standard of subtle sarcasm!!!!!
It's not gold, it's marketing
1:38, the way he stands... what is wrong with him...
Rickets
It's the pants.
There's a pole up there, clearly. It's an apple accessory.
Answer: He has massive balls and he's trying to avoid crushing them
So nice to watch this.. calm and fresh breeze in my soul... Wish all good to apple lovers. 200$ - thats the secret.
In case of titanium, the cost is mostly for machining and polishing it but it would still be cheaper than Apple is asking for it.
That would be an extra $200
most expensive part on steel or titanium AW is that sapphire glass with rounded edges... Aluminium AW doesnt have that.
For the luxury or hobby watch market, 200 is a reasonable price for titanium. But the apple watch is designed to be disposed of every few years. This is what makes it expensive.
in Russia titanium 10usd for 1kg.
@@username7763 No it isn't. You've just illustrated that the luxury or hobby market is as overpriced as the Apple range.
Mkbhd has recently graduated from Apple's school of pricing and he launched an wallpaper app whose subscription cost $50/year.
well clearly he needs to re-take the class, it should be 200 a year.
I was Machintosh and IBM certified in 1987 and a CE/EE since 1990 and I will and have never given apple a penny.
I would buy their stock if I were to go back to the 90s with a timemachine, but buy Apple products and pigeonhole myself into their overpriced ecosystem? Nah
Apple wasn't always sht, the early iPods were actually good. Had a 360gb brick one for years, took a beating and the battery lasted well - actually got my money's worth and nothing else did that at the time. Anything newer than that I wouldn't touch with a 10ft barge pole tho.
woah that's so cool
Similar but took the other "fork in the road" having seen Apple’s (then) far-superior user experience and competitors’ feverish endeavors to replicate, some under NDAs as the technology planner for a state government.
Thank you for making these videos. I don’t like Apple products, but my family members do, and I argue with them.
I love Apple products, they're great! But their pricing isn't, that's why I don't own any
2:56 This assumes they don't have extra costs per including the tintanium
As an engineer I learned a long time ago that.... If it looks stupid but it works, it's not stupid.
Duck tape and zip ties run the merchant marine
So you're a pricing engineer?.... That's stupid.
Have you seen the Dyson bane headphones?
In this case its still stupid, but people are idiots
@@TillTheLightTakesUs but then you have if it looks stupid and it don't work then it's stupid or if it looks cool and it don't work it's still stupid
You forgot the last lesson: account for inflation 100 yesrs in to the future
Even more, they help speeding the inflation
Today's $200 = ₹ 16,707.78
Apple's $200 = ₹ 20,000
And in $999 u can easily build urself a decent gaming cpu that "works". Not just a stand 😂
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That's 18% gst + rounding off
@@Pathtoatheism I know bro, I was trying to make a JOKE
Although it's a bad one
I remember, back in the 60s, (yes, I'm that old) I worked on a Honeywell computer. In the pricing, there was an item called "series 200 adapter". I asked an honest salesman what that was and he said it did not exist.
This was really entertaining. Thank you. 😊
Technology gets smaller, better and cheaper to produce, but the wallet keeps getting bigger
The wallet keeps getting smaller, you should say
He's so good at roasting he needs to open a restaurant. 😂🎩
😂😂😂
This price policy is nothing more than pathetic... 1000$ for a fkcing stand, they are out of their "mind" - and with them i mean people who buy this shit, in addition to a 5k monitor 🤦♂
what do you mean? are you blind? where does it say $1000? it's $999, totally different
@@sorsun46it will be 1000 😂apple will charge 2 dollars for a bag
@@sorsun46 lol
3:30 is this really true?
Airpods 4 and airpods 4 pro is the same hardware but ANC is behind a paywall for the regular ones???
Hold up. Machining aluminum is super fricking easy. It's one of (if not THE) easiest metals to machine.
Titanium is one of the hardest metals to machine.
It's not as simple as a $10 price difference in materials.
They can use the same machine for both, but just use different cutting tip for different materials, may be cost $1 extra for each cut.
@@jxmai7687 I highly doubt titanium would be as notoriously difficult to machine if it was a simple matter like that. Though I know next to nothing about the subject. Though it is so notorious to machine, even I knew about it.
@@jxmai7687 It's not as simple as just using a different "cutting tip" for Titanium. Machining titanium has various intricacies that need to be accounted for, such as it being prone to work hardening if your speeds and feeds are wrong or if you prematurely back out of a cut, it dulls most tooling very quickly, it overheats tooling, it is far more prone to chatter, it can catch fire when machined, the benefit of coolant is much higher, and machining aluminum is just slower overall.
At this point, I like the videos before even watching them. They NEVER disappoint.
Keep up the awesome work Sam!! 🎉
In under 6 mins,
we can all graduate a masterclass for the subject of *_"Apple's Marketing, Mathematics & Pricing."_*
It's a win-win for us all!
TQ Sam Tucker!
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it has been about 3 or 4 months since the last time I clicked the like button on a video. Thanks for the new click!
This was hilarious, you've earned another subscriber.
Samtucker the man who cooks Tim cooks 😂
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used to
5:38 to say that apple is a rip off and the people who buy are stupid.... KK I'm here for it.
I am so relieved that I never wasted my money on an apple product in my life, I've always hated the iPhones because why buy such a restricting phone when you can buy a much more durable and affordable one that will last twice as long...
In Apple Pricing, a great deal is when you buy 3 wheels for your computer at $200 each, you get the 4th wheel at half price. What a Deal!!!!
Indeed I think that they removed de Active Noise Cancelling originally designed for the device.
2:53 there are many types of titanium though 😅 apple use different one
Just glad I am not in the Apple ecosystem.
God, I'm not even in the Samsung ecosystem!
i am thankful every day that i got out of it some years ago. wasn't easy but worth it. kinda like a cult
@@DMSProduktions There is no Samsung Ecosystem.
Samsung products effortlessly work with other brands android products.
How Apple actually makes money:
Selling a product for twice of what you need for manufacturing it 😂
It’s a software product. You’re really paying for the software license.
@@Tailspin80 dang i thought that the software was free
@@MattIMp-n5f Ok, it’s a marketing product where they suck you in, get your kids addicted, sell your data and break into your house when you go on holiday*. The hardware and software are free.
* might have made that bit up
Sir it seems you didn't take apple class properly it's 100x the manufacturer cost and recycling of materials to lower the cost even further so you looking 10x of that percentage so you looking at 1000x of the manufacturer cost at the end
@@amosclark6538 so an iPhone would cost 1$ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The watch band with my Apple Watch 9 (recycled) contained enough industrial garbage that I had allergic reactions to it. All my previous apple watches had bands I couldn't even feel. It took nearly a year to find a decent band that didn't fall apart.
Wonder how many years it will take you to find a decent watch
@@shadesoftime Functionally better than my Galaxy Watch 4 Classic or my Garmin, though I'm keeping an eye open for a high-end Garmin on sale eventually.
I started dipping my toes into the Galaxy ecosystem last year in response to some stupidity with Apple navigation and music functions getting deeply unreliable.
Thanks... I was laughing all the way.
Just by looking at the thumbnail, the big lesson I learnt immediately is to always carve a bitten apple logo on whatever product I'm about to sell for extra profit
"Every second a sucker is born" - Apple
I let the sucker buy new ,then i buy it 1 year later for 50% discount 😊
can't really blame apple, if i was a greedy money CEO and people buy everything i do, why wouldnt I charge everything for huge amounts of money.
Classic sociopathic thinking.
@@deadaimusic1889 maybe, but I blame the psychopaths that enable this by actually buying this stuff
@@deadaimusic1889 Counting on the morality of people is not a bet that should be taken these days. However it's not necessarily sociopathic, it's simple greed and it's very widespread.
@@deadaimusic1889 Large part of the blame lies on consumers (especially in the US market) whom would rather spend hundreds of dollars extra either just for the perceived prestige of having a logo of an apple with a bite taken out of it on your electronics, or out of being too ignorant to look around for alternatives (such as Android), and because "everyone else has Apple so I must have Apple too".
You cannot change the world. People like this will always make up the vast majority of society, no matter your efforts, so might as well exploit them because frankly, that's what they deserve.
@@deadaimusic1889Classic mindless consumer thinking.
This is unironically an excellent video that sums up the modern-day tech ultra-capitalistic tech dystopia that we're in, spearheaded by Apple.
Great video! ✌️
Apple is master of marketing. I've worked for them for 3 years and it's really ALL psychologisch.
First lesson;
- iPhone (= i phone... so i. I = "me" and me = most important, meaning people will always do whats best for them)
- Making a phone heavier than necessary (heavy equipment = often related psychologically to better equipment) That's why 'iPhone users often find Android shockingly light weighted and 'cheap')
- Their devices work PERFECT... if you own ALL of them. If not, you will find obstacles which make the boundry lower for you to invest in other Apple devices
- etc
Their sales training is also AMAZING... I'm not allowed to say it all, but there are:
- clues about body language which we have to pick up
- products are placed in xyz-position to make people ACTIVELY do a bodylanguage clue.... (if you can't understand this, learn it somewhere else)
- products are heavily priced (expensive = must be good... like a Rolls Royce is 'better' than a Suzuki Swift. Even though both could last the same miles)
- their sales technique due to fake interests in your life, hobbies, grandkids their shoe sizes... it's all part of 'upselling' later on.
And funniest thing to me... Steve Jobs (former CEO when I was working for them) was NOT AN INVENTOR he literally stole old ideas and rebranded them. Marketing = KEY.
And at last but not least... they are LITERALLY targeting dumb people.
Don't get me wrong, I do not DISRESPECT people with Apple devices, I just tell them that Apple targets those who are easiest to influence. Business people (materialism), kids (easy to use OS) and 'avg Joe' (easy OS). Because Android can 'do too many things you will never use' while Apple takes away things you should be able to use (external Apps, waking up with adjustable music as alarm...not just default sounds, etc)
So they have the perfect marketing and products..
Expensive. Easy marketing. Short words.
Great designed website.
Just to sell..
A 27" screen.
iMac... but without the Mac.
I'd pay $200, enroll me to the advanced classes.
Wasted money,since obviously you have no ideas that you'd be able to make money on.
If you ever had any, you wouldn't by asking for such lessons.
APPLE CEO: "activate order gen-Z"
Apple fan base:👏👏👏
Padmé : "So this is how common sense dies, with thunderous applause"
People who buy Apple are the same people who will spend nearly $10 on a cup of coffee at Starbucks ... just so they can walk around with a logo ... 🤦♂🤑🤣
Or people like me, who just can’t stand Windows. Microsoft’s absolute trash is responsible for at least half of Apple’s market cap. I don’t want to pay $3500 for an editing laptop, but WTF Widows is nearly un-usable for creative stuff.
Airpods & Airpods pro. The last gen regular air pods had a magsafe case that will stick to a vertical mounted charger. The newest regular air pods with wireless charging does have some magnets in the back but they do not connect to the apple magsafe charger puck at all.
You’re basically showing us how business works. Thanks for the lesson
The outro is perfect.
This man as just explained how every company not just apple works today. Let’s see how much we can rip people off.
They all took his Apple class obviously
@@johnyepthomi892 I think it’s more the public took the stupidity class for accepting it.
🍎: *Yesterday's technically for tomorrow's prices*
quoting Jerry Rig I believe ;)
That is also the case of oscilloscope. Same oscilloscope can be upgraded to 4x speed just by input a password.
Cost 2500 usd
His vids are legendary !!!
For the Apple Watch, I was surprised at that price, it does not include the price of the strap.
Wait. the strap is not included in the price of the apple watch?
700$ for 4 wheels now that's a banger deal saving you 50% from a single wheel
nah, 15% :p
Recycling part is actually nice
look up tokenism
Apple are such inspirations, they have now inspired me to make my own company called Orange. I will take their strategies to the next level, I will sell them Orange smartphones for $5000 and when they open the box it will be empty, the smartphone is sold separately! Thank you apple.
It's great to see Apple take a stand... against low prices! You're charging it wrong!
Stand they took was from the XDR monitor 😂.
have always used 3rd party products (“3rd party chargers could ruin your Airbook’s touchpad”😂😂) for Apple devices, saved a ton
BUT THATS A SIN!!!!!!
That is brilliant - I'll apply that 200 dollars extra into my next business idea. Eg. a pack of gum + 200 dollars for a flavour upgrade
I have all Apple products, but this guy is spot-on and hilarious! 😂👍
This is simply genius. Thank you for the enlightment.
Love British humor. You got yourself a new subscriber!
I think he is an Ozzie, not British.
Definitely Australian, not British.
@@Honda_Hooliganisn't Australian just deep South version of Britain?
ROB even said that if they put his dirty underwear and slap on a Apple logo, people still buy that literally
for 200$
I can buy a 32" monitor with stand for the $200 Apple VESA mount.
yeah but then you cant say you own an apple monitor. wouldnt want to look like a DIRTY POOR would you?? anyways, im going to go drive to starbucks in my tesla now.
On the surface, it seems like you're absolutely right, but I disagree on the point about pricing. The reason is that Apple employs dozens of senior software engineers for anc so why they produce a technology they couldn't profit? It is not charity and just like they do for design, durability, and other aspects. Beyond just the material costs, the salaries of these employees are significant. Apple has to not only ensure that its workforce is well-compensated but also make a profit. And as the company grows larger, it becomes harder to match the lower prices of other manufacturers for things like watch bands of similar material quality. As a senior software engineer, I can say that Facebook, Google and Apple not only produce a product but also improve the mind behind the product.
Brother, quality content, well deserved sub
My 1 TB SATA SSD cost me $50. Even a 1 TB NVME SSD cost around $50 when I bought mine, but it didn't fit in my ancient 10 year old laptop.
Consider in the 80s that phones cost 5k so by that comparison we’re just working our way back up to that price
Yeah because of monopoly
Consider that in the 80s, phones were almost as rare as spacecrafts. So no.. looking at the mass production and availability they have to be priced as rice.
@@Meanthes that and also the tech was expensive to produce at the time and only a few companies had the means to bring it to market