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by paxys 280 days ago
The biggest enhancement this year seems to be the across-the-board increase in prices.

Just don't say the "tariff" word...

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Just looking at the AirPods now and they seem to have new features such as heart rate sensing and live translation at the same price.

> The company has refined the design, added heart rate sensing, improved active noise cancellation (ANC), delivered live translation and more. And most importantly, it did so without increasing the price.

https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/apple-airpods-pro-...

Both the iPhone and the Pro remained the same price, and the iPhone also increased its storage capacity for the same price...
>Both the iPhone and the Pro remained the same price...

According to the CNBC live page, the iPhone 16 Pro started at $999, and the iPhone 17 Pro will start at $1099.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/09/live-updates-apple-event-iph...

The 16 Pro started at 128GB and the 17 Pro starts at 256GB.

They essentially kept the pricing but bumped the lowest storage tier.

The first comments on anything apple does are always just angry people taking a swipe. There are legitimate criticisms of apple to be had but you can be assured they’ll be drowned out by the unreasonable ones on any internet forum.