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Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple
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"What if we just doubled the price?" - some genius executive that never created a damn thing in their life
That only works for housing and healthcare.
You forgot groceries, mandatory insurance, and utilities...
big part of apple's success is that it successfully establishes itself as a status symbol - it is for a lot of people what car was for generation of their parents and grandparents.
so there will definitely be a clientele for that two times expensive whatever. some people will buy it just to show others they can afford it, same reason why people were buying overpriced cars.