Apple's Massive Price Hikes and the $2,000 Foldable iPhone

Apple just jacked up Mac prices by over thirteen hundred dollars, and this is only the beginning. Thanks to global chip shortages, Tim Cook says price hikes are now inevitable. The Mac Studio M3 Ultra just jumped to fifty-three hundred dollars, while the MacBook Pro is up to two thousand. But that is not all. Apple is starting production on a two-thousand-dollar foldable iPhone. The catch? A new study warns it could lose sixty percent of its value in the first year alone. That is a twelve-hundred-dollar depreciation hit. Meanwhile, Meta is striking back, launching three-hundred-dollar smart glasses with real-time translation to beat Apple's rumored wearable. Your tech setup is about to get a lot more expensive. Are you still paying the Apple tax?