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Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough (www.theregister.com)
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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago

Consumers literally do not have a choice to buy the services the article was discussing -- apple's media streamers -- from someone else. Apple monopolizes that content.

RTFA. It is not about phones.

And even for phones, to get a functionally-acceptable product, your choice is one of maybe 5 manufacturers who all tacitly collude to keep prices up and keep unprofitable consumer choices far, far away.