While this does seem a bit high, it’s worth bearing in mind two things. One, most other places price sales tax into the advertised total, which doesn’t happen in the US. For UK prices, that’s 20% right there. Two, to prevent constantly floating prices, they need to fix a price at a decent hedge against currency fluctuations. This should be all the more understandable given the recent volatility in forex rates.
Yeah but Samsung compensate for that sort of thing and actually take a hit in their margins to lower prices in certain markets. Apple doesn’t care, it clearly isn’t selling to price sensitive clients in non US markets, because its prices are insane. Particularly in countries like South Africa and Brazil.