https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/18/apple-iphone-17-price-hike-yen/
>>109304053Got what I voted for
>>109304053Is there anything that didn't go up in the last year? I don't know how people are affording jackshit anymore. Even just buying a lunch costs almost as much as some people make in an hour.
>>10930407510% inflation in food? Sounds like bullshit.
>>109304133It coincided with the fuel price increase. So grocery shipping cost more and workers driving to work cost more, so prices went up everywhere for it. There's a calzone place next door to my office and price of one calzone is almost as much as I make in one hour and that place is practically empty these days as a result.
>>109304053Nippon itoddlers btfot.Satania
>>109304160It's also going to btfo India since iPhone prices are apparently increasing there by 16%. It'll likely make sales collapse kek.
Glamour whore life is getting expensive
>>109304053>[insert a consumer group here] can't afford iPhonesWhat do you think the finance option is for?
>>109304218I honestly forget that's a thing, I've never financed anything piece of tech in my entire life, not even a car.
Crazy how you will never be able to build a normal pc now without the ram cucking you existentially
>>109304249Just finance it.
owari da...
>>109304053People buy iPhones on rolling credit and trade them in every year for the new one. It'll barely raise their monthly repayment and they won't care.
>>109304061>Got what I voted forThis>>109304053Most women are witches with no brains
>>109304053To show their displeasure with the continued failures of the Liberal Democratic Party they will.... vote the Liberal Democratic Party with in with a landslide now!That's how Nihon rolls.
>>109304061What does that have anything to do with ram cartels choosing to limit the expansion and slow down the factory expansion to rake in hundreds of billions of dollars of profit per quarter? Why are you inserting your communist ideology in your response?
Phones could be ten times the price and they would still sell. The real value of the device is far greater than what you pay for it.
Does that mean they will return to making shitty but pretty cool Japanese phones again
>>109304362"Still sell" is a worthless metric. 1 unit sold is "still selling" but it's way more than a 10x decrease in profit
>>109304321Anon anti japan threads are made by a canadian jeet, when they get ignored in /pol/&/int/ he comes here
>>109304218Japanese don't finance
They got a cheaper Switch 2 so this is just the market equalizing.
>>109304053New Pixel releasing in August by the way. Buy that instead. Fuck Apple.
>>109304321Americans can still afford iPhones
>>109304321>communist ideologyNo one helped push communism worldwide more than the Japanese empire
>not buying iPhones second handmy 12 mini was used for a week and I got it 20% less than the original price at the time, only consumerists want it brand new and enjoy the 1 time unboxing
The yen is weak? How many Japanese bitches can I get for $89?
>>109307264no thanks Im not interested in a gpu from 2013.
>>109308516You can’t afford a $1,200 iPhone brokie thirdie!
>>109308557>gpu from 2013.Your screenshot isn't of the Pixel 11 which nobody has benchmarked yet because it's not even out yet.Fucking retard.
>>109308648You don’t know what you’re talking about. Don’t ever open your mouth when you’re misinformed ever again.
>>109308673wow, the Pixel 11 Pro SOC is weaker than the base iPhone 17 SOC. kek.
>>109304053I'm glad that poorfags desperate to buy iPhones for social status is a universal thing.
The Japanese sure do love buying iPhones, holy moly Batman!
>>109308673Literally the first bullet point tells you all you need to know. Wait for real tests.I expect it'll be better than a GPU from 2013.>>109308687Now compare efficiency and its AI features to Apple's joke of an assistant.
>>109308707Holy Cope!
>>109308715Do you seriously think those low early scores that are worse than the Pixel 9 Pro in your screenshot are indicative of anything?I know you're a retard but the Dunning Kruger on display here is really something.
>>109308723you have pixel SOC delusions of grandeur
>>109308702lol
>>109308690Apple is glad too. More than likely these price increases won't change their opinion of them whatsoever. They'll just eat it. Oh, well. Tim Apple needs more money.
Pixel anons pay flagship prices for mid range specs, but lets talk about a 10% increase for iPhones!https://wccftech.com/google-tensor-g6-leak-to-disappoint-pixel-11-customers/
>>109308822People buy it because the software isn't complete dog shit.If you have to choose between buggy iOS with useless "Apple Intelligence", or Samsung garbage then Pixel's clean UI and good stock apps is appealing to some people.
>>109304053grim
>>109308822Lmaoooooo
>>109308740I bought a Pixel 10 for 400 on the Google Store. It's amazing for the price and I'm running LMMs with Graphene OS. I really could care less how much gaming performance and tasks I can do. It's a good piece of tech and the privacy is a good trade off compared to the "advantages" you get while being tracked a lot
>>109308865Whenever you see someone bring up "gaming performance" it's always the same fat Asian loser whaling for gooner slop.When it comes to real tasks like this then the Pixel is more than fine. AI performance in particular is something everyone should be focusing on and Google is the only company that understands that. They've long since invested in things like TPUs.
>>109308822idk why they release such a underwhelming device at flagship prices, guess people will buy anything.
>>109308896It’s crazy they have the audacity to talk about someone buying an iPhone. Meanwhile, they are literally buying a mid range phone at flagship prices. It’s not even funny.
>>109308785Actually smart phones in general are tools to control plebes. All the big tech CEOs forbid their kids from using phones and social media. They know how bad all this shit is. If you must have a phone then get a dumb/flip phone for emergencies.
>>109308943you literally made that all up. All Tech ceo kids are all over social media "influencing" and showing off all the stuff their parents have. generation alpha is literally on their phones, using it to make money. They don’t even wanna work normal jobs anymore. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Japan is poor now
>>109310976>Now
>>109308896Chinese phones cheat at benchmarks. Geekerwan even called it out before they got canceled.https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1rfw6oj/hardware_reviewer_geekerwan_possibly_censored_by/
>>109304053>>109304160People forget Japan has always been Apple-centralSataniafags btfo
even the base iphone 17 gets higher fps rateshttps://youtu.be/X6fgT-RFRiQ?is=dlcDXM47CoMu_zJ7
>>109314364>iToddlers can't live without their whizz bangJust buy a real games console. Or you can't afford it because you spent all "your" money on finance?
>>109314426Kek
There was a story on pol yesterday that said Japanese women are being stopped at the US border because they are trying to become prostitutes in the US. So they must be pretty desperate.
>>109308865>gaming performancei've never understood it but i've been out a lot more and zoomers really do use phones for gamingwild to me but i can see why they want it at least But I also see a lot of pixel owners now too. Whatever Google is doing is working to sell at least a lot more pixels than they used to. Although like that other guy said I'm guessing most of that is down to massive price slashes
>>109314892Why aren't they buying all of those crazy ASUS ROG phones then?Gaming on phones has always seemed shitty to me, personally.What's wrong with them to go:>I could get a Switch 2>I could get a Steam Deck>Nooo, I will pull out my iFag device, check my Grindr profile to see if the tranny I'm dating got back to me and then put on some Wuthering Waves
>>109315021Whole lotta projection anon, this isn't the place. You're on a technology board.
>>109315267If you want to game then a real console will beat the shit out of your iFag device and probably run cooler too. Oh, and you can dock it to play your games on the big screen and you also have a much bigger catalogue of games than your shitty mobile gacha crap.Zoomers are weird.
>>109304053Weak yen is the foundation of the Japanese economy
>>109315338people who really like gaming have gaming phones, pcs and other handhelds. your mindset is too brokie to understand how real adults can afford whatever they want. you keep talking about a certain group of people because thats all you fantasize about, but once again this is the wrong board for your fetishes.
>>109315021How does owning an iPhone make somebody homosexual? Anon you sound very uneducated. Here you are shilling android which is literally ran by Indi*ns.
>>109315501incorrect apple isn’t like the google ceos and top management at all!
>>109315513They still do the same H1B crap as all the other companies. Nobody cares who the suit at the top is.
>>109315513lol
>>109315523Wrong again. Opinions aren’t facts.
>>109315537They all do it, tard.
>>109315559cope>>109315513kek
>>109315572>Facts are cope nowThat's literally 4,000+ jobs going to an Indian that could instead be fulfilled by a proud white America patriot
>>109304170>It'll likely make sales collapse kekApple has always been overpriced. Part of their brand is being the most expensive phone.
>>109315583and they still out sell the competition every year.
The pixel 11 leaks are showing price increases too.https://www.pcguide.com/news/google-pixel-11-prices-leak-for-second-time-as-listings-show-up-early-on-amazon-ram-storage-also-cut-back/
>>109317195You'll get a better price buying direct from Google probably. Can't imagine Amazon will be competitive with the offers Google usually has
>>109317195Pixels are overpriced and they have the weakest SOC for a so-called flagship. Doubt the Tensor G6 will be good the Geekbench 6 for it is low like the G5.https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-11-performance-rumors-3664645/
>>109317394>MemebenchGeekbench doesn't measure real world performance.
>>109317457Qualcomm always shows off the geekbench results when they reveal every new Snapdragon literally in every keynote video.
>>109314546Is not only US, I've read JAV actress have gotten kicked from taiwan and new zealand for prostituting themselves there, not to mention japan now surpassed thailand as the capital of sex tourism since prostitution is fucking cheap there Japan is unironically transitioning into a 2nd world economy
>>109317466They do that to showcase improvements because the "benchmark" is a synthetic one that favours CPUs that boost quickly. It tells you nothing else useful. You can't tell efficiency from it or if the CPU throttles excessively under load (short benchmark duration), etc.This is why Apple loves it so much as a benchmark.
>>109317492Dumb retard
>>109317509Why are you talking about yourself?It tells you literally nothing of value. There's no real world workload like that
>>109307401they should make the yen like the cent and make a new dollar equivalent called the ben
>>109304362You're not accounting for used market and people holding onto their phones.
>>109307401Japan is experiencing the negatives of a weak currency>Companies get richer and imported products are more expensive Without the good part of it which is inflation of wages >Citizens get poorer because their wage won't go up So if they want to buy foreign stuff, like apple products, they get raped during the currency conversion
>>109317394Lol
>>109317651Their domestic produce is basically never affected by inflation though. It's their fault if they want to buy an iToy instead
>>109317775Saar must posting iToy saar
>>109315513>>109317801Looooool
Japs don't need iPhones, they live in an alternate timeline where tech still has sovl and Android flip phones are a thing.
>>109319064wrong. >>109308702
>>109304053
>>109308843we had Oneplus but they just died
>>109319089And?
>>109312481Truth nuke
>>109304061>mutt voooted fairytaleGrow up faggot, you don't get a say on anything and neither the pleb around you.
>>109304053a price increase and liquid ass? sounds unattractive.
>>109319364True
>>109304053they are such corpo bootlicker cucks that they would still buy it even if it was 3x the current price
>>109308702>>109312481Japan is Total iPhone Allegiance
Owari da
>>109315513>>109317394Lol
I have a Samsung S20 FE that I love, but was thinking of getting a new phone before ai fucks up this prices too. I see that the S25U is like $850 at bestbuy now and that seems tempting. However, my brother wants me to get an Iphone 17 512GB because they are more stable OS builds, but then you have shit like in OP happening all the time with apple fucking customers over and only paying a small fine, small for them, then doing it again the next year. I asked this in spg but they are busying calling each other poor.
>>109325692They will call you poor too despite the fact that statistically Android users are more likely to be their phone outright than the iTards financing their device (because they wouldn't be able to afford it otherwise, that's why they care about things like GPU performance because they can't afford both a phone and a games console)
>>109325721you just made all of that up, bro. very cringe.
>>109325742don’t talk to that anon dude, they are one of the main reasons this board gets derailed with flamewar arguments. just look at the immature way they talk about anybody having an Apple product. literally gossiping like little high school children and using buzzwords and slang names to insult people for using an Apple smartphone. sad.
>>109325742You can look it up if you don't believe me. The majority of people in America "buying" an iPhone are doing it through finance or tied to a contract with their carrier.
>>109325787i’ve worked in the cellular industry back when I was younger for over 10 years, having worked for three different carriers. I’m gonna let you know right now, even to this very day there are multiple android devices that you can get through the carrier for free. Just like the same way they offer deals for iPhones, so your argument doesn’t make any sense. People are literally given the option of android or iOS via promos through carrier plans. They literally pick Apple all the time lol.
>>109325839Because the Apple users are those stupid enough to buy a phone on finance.Yet, here you have someone that's potentially going to spend $850 of their own dollars at Bestbuy to buy their phone outright. Poor, apparently.
>>109325855I’m gonna stop talking to you and I’m somebody else that was speaking to you earlier. You’re just being very ignorant. You’re claiming that every single person buying an iPhone doesn’t have the money to buy it outright. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re clearly very uneducated and you’re just an Apple hater. Somebody else literally just posted that they work at cell phone stores in America and how the same exact promos are available for other androids. You can look at it right now, for example, by going to Best Buy’s website to see all the promos that all carriers offer. You could literally get the flagship Samsung for free. That being said, Apple is still out selling all competition available through carriers with similar promos. It has nothing to do with financing because the same financing is available for many flagship androids. People in America just like Apple more, just like they prefer Apple more in Japan. It’s not complicated. You just don’t wanna accept the truth.
>>109325877Nothing is "free", that's the sort of idiotic shit the Apple users constantly fall for and if you've ever worked in the industry then you know that too.At least in Japan they buy their phones outright, no strings attached. They're certainly not as poor as you might think.If you can't afford to buy something outright then you can't afford it.
>>109325910that’s not true. Japan offers financing too. every single Apple Store offers no interest financing that you can use to get the phone and still pay the cash price, but over a span of two years, for example. you don’t know what you were talking about, but you act like you do.
>>109325932So even with the same promotions and deals with androids, people still pick iPhones. Lmaooooo.
>>109304061>>109320573who put those WEF faggots in charge?
>>109325932>>109326728Kek
>>109304053from what i've seen of livestreamers on nico, japs will live in squalid matchboxes but will still have the latest max specced iphone, i think it's a massive status symbol, they will still buy it
>>109304053will there be an equivalent rise in young woman prostitution?
>>109304286the UK has bought phone like that since they came out. you just buy your phone as part of your carrier contract over x years.
>>109330109A lot of people buy outright still because we have good "Pay as you Go" plans that obviate the need for an expensive rolling contract.Although, because of enshittification it's getting harder to secure a good one. Since Three merged with Vodafone all their plans have ridiculous speed caps now even if you're on a "Pay monthly" SIM deal you still don't get untiered speeds.The industry, it seems is pushing hard to force people into American style rolling contracts with all the extra bells and whistles you don't need in order to extract more money out of you each month.
>>109326928You're peering from above the rabbit hole mate.
>>109330109These days that's mainly for retards who want some 'status symbol' phone but can't actually afford one. The rise of cheap chinkphones and tons of deals and competition in the mid-range means most people can just spend £200-300 and get more phone than they'll ever need, with the freedom to get a much better SIM-only deal. Just the other day the Pixel 10a was available for £250, which would cover 99% of people's needs in a phone. I paid £170 for my Motorola Edge 40 a couple of years ago which has been fine (aside from Motorola's buggy updates).
>>109331352budget phones are taking a huge hit. Based. Cut off production of all budget phones and save the parts for mid tier and flagships.https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/budget-smartphone-market-collapses-under-the-weight-of-memory-shortages-sales-expected-to-drop-22-percent-memory-alone-now-comprises-up-to-64-percent-of-the-total-cost-of-lower-tier-smartphones
>>109304053>mid lifecycle price hikes are now a thinkexpect them to become a seasonal thing.
>>109308896What's the actual use case for that processing power if you don't play mobile shit.
>>109331619why are you concerned about what anyone else does with their tech? peculiar mindset.
>>109331632Oh no someone engaged in wrongthink. Don't ask questions and consume product.
>>109331694thats not what I meant bro. who are you to judge and care why and how I use my smartphone which I bought?
>>109331805nice room temp iq reply very edgy for a high schooler
>>109331824Personally I thought it was very measured. Surely you can understand that not everyone plays gaymes on their phone
>>109331619>>109331694>>109331805>>109331835Cringe
>>109325932>>109326728Truth Nuke
