Comment by balls187
4 months ago
Not OpenAI’s fault that the cost of a shipping container doubled.
I collect fountain pens which have nothing to do with the data center market and the big 3 Japanese makers announced pretty substantial price hikes.
4 months ago
Not OpenAI’s fault that the cost of a shipping container doubled.
I collect fountain pens which have nothing to do with the data center market and the big 3 Japanese makers announced pretty substantial price hikes.
I mean, sure shipping is more expensive but that’s definitely not the cause of Apple’s price increases.
The cause is the whole thing, cost of shipping (container, gas, etc), cost of components (RAM, SSD, etc), cost of tariff, cost of lobbying and lawsuits, and overall inflation cost.
No. It's literally RAM.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-r...
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You can fit about 8,000 MacBook Pros into a 40-foot container in their retail packaging. If the cost of shipping a container went up by USD8,000 (a very large amount), that would be about USD1 per MBP. It's not the shipping that's driving the price increase.
Year Average Spot Rate (USD)
2006 $1,825
2007 $1,775
2008 $1,383
2009 $1,350
2010 $1,900
2011 $1,450
2012 $2,000
2013 $1,750
2014 $1,900
2015 $1,125
2016 $1,350
2017 $1,525
2018 $1,775
2019 $1,490
2020 $3,008
2021 $8,608
2022 $5,500
2023 $1,575
2024 $4,740
2025 $3,150
2026 (YTD) $3,835