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
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
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 $200/£200 an "apple".
@@ploed well in the UK we use both, we have the metric system for everyday measurement, we use miles to determining distance mph the reference speed , we use stone lbs and KG for weighing… we have drop the shillings from the currency … the Euro has been rejected… but the way digital currency is going and tap to pay…. We will ALL be using the same credits system in 20 years 😂
I am so relieved that I never wasted my money on an apple product in my life, I've always hated the iPhones because why buy such a restricting phone when you can buy a much more durable and affordable one that will last twice as long...
Somehwere in 2028…at Apple : Soo how could we increase the profit with iphones ? …euhem lets introduce the Iphone Ultra for +1000$ more than the iphone pro 🥴 those fools will buy it anyway !!!
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…)
@@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.
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
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.
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.
*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.
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 $10 price difference in materials.
@@jxmai7687 I highly doubt titanium would be as notoriously difficult to machine if it was a simple matter like that. Though I know next to nothing about the subject. Though it is so notorious to machine, even I knew about it.
@@jxmai7687 It's not as simple as just using a different "cutting tip" for Titanium. Machining titanium has various intricacies that need to be accounted for, such as it being prone to work hardening if your speeds and feeds are wrong or if you prematurely back out of a cut, it dulls most tooling very quickly, it overheats tooling, it is far more prone to chatter, it can catch fire when machined, the benefit of coolant is much higher, and machining aluminum is just slower overall.
I would buy their stock if I were to go back to the 90s with a timemachine, but buy Apple products and pigeonhole myself into their overpriced ecosystem? Nah
Apple wasn't always sht, the early iPods were actually good. Had a 360gb brick one for years, took a beating and the battery lasted well - actually got my money's worth and nothing else did that at the time. Anything newer than that I wouldn't touch with a 10ft barge pole tho.
Similar but took the other "fork in the road" having seen Apple’s (then) far-superior user experience and competitors’ feverish endeavors to replicate, some under NDAs as the technology planner for a state government.
I remember, back in the 60s, (yes, I'm that old) I worked on a Honeywell computer. In the pricing, there was an item called "series 200 adapter". I asked an honest salesman what that was and he said it did not exist.
For the luxury or hobby watch market, 200 is a reasonable price for titanium. But the apple watch is designed to be disposed of every few years. This is what makes it expensive.
This price policy is nothing more than pathetic... 1000$ 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 🤦♂
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 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! 🥳
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.
@@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.
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.
Apple overcharges like crazy but as a former machinist, I want to note that titanium is much more difficult to work with, and much harder on the tooling (which is more expensive to begin with)
Please keep in mind that the "missing" power adapter for Samsung phones is actually a good thing. This is part of the EU's effort to reduce high tech garbage, since every smartphone sold in Europe needs to have a USB cable now, which means that companies don't need to sell a new power adapter with every new phone, even though most people still have some perfectly fine working USB power adapters at home. Add to this that a lot of newer extension cords now come with USB adapters already included, and you realize that actually putting another power adapter into the package would be a total waste (quite literally!). Charging $39 for a power adapter, on the other hand, is really a bit pricy, since you can get some good ones for about $20 already (most cheaper ones are those made by some no-name companies in China, which like to simply go up in flames from time to time...).
Only pount i don't completely agree with is the titanium/aluminum comparison. Yes titanium is not expensive metal but it takes a lot more time and more expensive tooling to machine the metal since it's a lot harder than aluminum. So your price increase is not just because titanium sounds stronger so let's charge more, it's in the cost of machining. But Apple does charge too much for titanium it's a joke lol
@@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
Apple is so ahead of the competition, they look ahead and already include the inflation of which amounts to prices in ten year's time. No other company can do that.
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.
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.
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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
“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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
After Tim Cook announced that he was gay, Samsung CEO said he was also gay... And waterproof.
Waterproof your gays for safe keeping.
@@kingvinoda3896 This bag is not a toy.
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.
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
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?
In a word: Mindless consumers
that's 200 words
@@VitorSantos-jm8tbthat's 200 dollars a word
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...
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
@@kiran9s *iMeth
“By taking away, we’re adding so much more” 🗣🔥🔥🔥
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.
“What is this gold? No it’s marketing.” 😂😂😂😂😂
Never bought an apple product, never will. There are always better options
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…)
@@mikni4069 Which state in the USA is the cheapest for an iPhone including tax? Which state is nerd's paradise?
@@ssmurf2990 yes and the euro is also worth more than the dollar.
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.
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
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.
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.
Are we sure this isn't an actual Apple training video?
$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"
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
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.
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.
And after all of that... we are still $3 dollars short 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Magnifique! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's the cost for the glue obv
This video is priceless. Gold standard of subtle sarcasm!!!!!
It was nothing subtle about it! 😂
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 $1 extra for each cut.
@@jxmai7687 I highly doubt titanium would be as notoriously difficult to machine if it was a simple matter like that. Though I know next to nothing about the subject. Though it is so notorious to machine, even I knew about it.
@@jxmai7687 It's not as simple as just using a different "cutting tip" for Titanium. Machining titanium has various intricacies that need to be accounted for, such as it being prone to work hardening if your speeds and feeds are wrong or if you prematurely back out of a cut, it dulls most tooling very quickly, it overheats tooling, it is far more prone to chatter, it can catch fire when machined, the benefit of coolant is much higher, and machining aluminum is just slower overall.
So nice to watch this.. calm and fresh breeze in my soul... Wish all good to apple lovers. 200$ - thats the secret.
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
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.
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 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.
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 $200
most expensive part on steel or titanium AW is that sapphire glass with rounded edges... Aluminium AW doesnt have that.
For the luxury or hobby watch market, 200 is a reasonable price for titanium. But the apple watch is designed to be disposed of every few years. This is what makes it expensive.
in Russia titanium 10usd for 1kg.
@@username7763 No it isn't. You've just illustrated that the luxury or hobby market is as overpriced as the Apple range.
This price policy is nothing more than pathetic... 1000$ 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
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.
This was really entertaining. Thank you. 😊
😂😂 "that's a titanium 200!"
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!
🥳
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
"How much do you charge for the iMath Masterclass?"
"$200.00"
"times that by twenty and we'll call it a day" 😂🤣
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.
You forgot the last lesson: account for inflation 100 yesrs in to the future
Even more, they help speeding the inflation
At this point, I like the videos before even watching them. They NEVER disappoint.
Keep up the awesome work Sam!! 🎉
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.
Recycling part is actually nice
look up tokenism
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
Samtucker the man who cooks Tim cooks 😂
😂
used to
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.
Looking forward to the SAMTIME field trip to the *APPLE STORE* !
You’re basically showing us how business works. Thanks for the lesson
He's so good at roasting he needs to open a restaurant. 😂🎩
😂😂😂
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!!!!
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.
They all learned from it nowadays.
thank you im taking notes
the wheels cost $200 each, but if you buy all 4, the 4th one is half price.
What a deal! Apple really outdid themselves with this one
Technology gets smaller, better and cheaper to produce, but the wallet keeps getting bigger
The wallet keeps getting smaller, you should say
This is unironically an excellent video that sums up the modern-day tech ultra-capitalistic tech dystopia that we're in, spearheaded by Apple.
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.
Plus, they won't let you service your devices so that they can sell you a new one.
This was hilarious, you've earned another subscriber.
2:51 Thank you for the Luciteria titanium plug
APPLE CEO: "activate order gen-Z"
Apple fan base:👏👏👏
Padmé : "So this is how common sense dies, with thunderous applause"
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.
And then people say that one is a hater….
Apple overcharges like crazy but as a former machinist, I want to note that titanium is much more difficult to work with, and much harder on the tooling (which is more expensive to begin with)
Its People like Sam who keeps these companies in check, these videos make huge impact.. 😊😊😊 Keep up the good work bro
Videos are great, but ironically still supports with the 💰
No one has to buy their products but you do get sucked in to their ecosystem.
I'd pay $200, enroll me to the advanced classes.
Wasted money,since obviously you have no ideas that you'd be able to make money on.
If you ever had any, you wouldn't by asking for such lessons.
It's great to see Apple take a stand... against low prices! You're charging it wrong!
Stand they took was from the XDR monitor 😂.
The most ridiculous part is that the customers are willing to pay for these
Man sam is a GENIUS 😂😂😂 he never misses
ROB even said that if they put his dirty underwear and slap on a Apple logo, people still buy that literally
for 200$
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!!!!!!
i dont anderstand people with apple products, never did...
Brother, quality content, well deserved sub
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?
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
"Every second a sucker is born" - Apple
I let the sucker buy new ,then i buy it 1 year later for 50% discount 😊
Please keep in mind that the "missing" power adapter for Samsung phones is actually a good thing. This is part of the EU's effort to reduce high tech garbage, since every smartphone sold in Europe needs to have a USB cable now, which means that companies don't need to sell a new power adapter with every new phone, even though most people still have some perfectly fine working USB power adapters at home. Add to this that a lot of newer extension cords now come with USB adapters already included, and you realize that actually putting another power adapter into the package would be a total waste (quite literally!).
Charging $39 for a power adapter, on the other hand, is really a bit pricy, since you can get some good ones for about $20 already (most cheaper ones are those made by some no-name companies in China, which like to simply go up in flames from time to time...).
Only pount i don't completely agree with is the titanium/aluminum comparison. Yes titanium is not expensive metal but it takes a lot more time and more expensive tooling to machine the metal since it's a lot harder than aluminum. So your price increase is not just because titanium sounds stronger so let's charge more, it's in the cost of machining. But Apple does charge too much for titanium it's a joke lol
🍎: *Yesterday's technically for tomorrow's prices*
quoting Jerry Rig I believe ;)
And they just buy it anyway
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?
The $200 part 😂😂 was so Hilarious
I have all Apple products, but this guy is spot-on and hilarious! 😂👍
How Apple actually makes money:
Selling a product for twice of what you need for manufacturing it 😂
It’s a software product. You’re really paying for the software license.
@@Tailspin80 dang i thought that the software was free
@@MattIMp-n5f Ok, it’s a marketing product where they suck you in, get your kids addicted, sell your data and break into your house when you go on holiday*. The hardware and software are free.
* might have made that bit up
Sir it seems you didn't take apple class properly it's 100x the manufacturer cost and recycling of materials to lower the cost even further so you looking 10x of that percentage so you looking at 1000x of the manufacturer cost at the end
@@amosclark6538 so an iPhone would cost 1$ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Apple is so ahead of the competition, they look ahead and already include the inflation of which amounts to prices in ten year's time. No other company can do that.
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
I was expecting a parody video, but instead I found an accurate documentary about Apple's pricing policy
Much needed Clarity
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.
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.