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They also inexplicably snuck in a 50% increase for the TV 4k, just to be extra greedy. Treat yoself Tim Apple!
by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
They also inexplicably snuck in a 50% increase for the TV 4k, just to be extra greedy.
Treat yoself Tim Apple!
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3mo agoThat’s infuriating. I was hovering over the buy button last week, and now that’s a deal breaker. I was already going for the premium price point for hard-to-justify reasons.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3mo agoUpdate: while I am terribly unhappy to give them money, there are still retailers who are listing the previous price and I was able to scoop one up before the hike went into effect.
- fckgw 3mo agoThe majority of the component cost in the AppleTV is likely the storage so that's a big hit.
- Marsymars 3mo agoHaving the ethernet port and Thread radio gated behind the 128gb model is obnoxious. I have three Apple TVs that are ethernet connected and form the backbone of my home's Thread network, but they have <5 apps installed and would do fine with 32gb rather than 128gb. (And in fact, they are all currently 32gb models from the previous generation where those did include ethernet.)
- thejazzman 3mo agoat a (previously) $20 price difference, why would they add a 3rd model?
- Marsymars 3mo agoI don't know what makes sense for Apple's supply chain and BoM, I'm just saying that the price for my home's worth of Apple TVs with the minimum functionality I use has gone up by over 50% since the previous-gen model and now sits at over $1,000 in local pricing. That's the kind of pricing that makes me start to consider the Google 4K Streamer even if it's a UX downgrade - for $300 I get ethernet and Thread on every TV.