Apple increased the prices of iPads and MacBooks!

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Lerato Khumalo

Apple, the manufacturer of iPhone, increased the prices of Macbooks and iPads by 20 percent globally, citing chip shortages!

The end consumer technology industry is facing an unprecedented challenge, Apple announced today. In this way, he explained that chip memory prices were rising very quickly and stated that they would have to pass these costs on to customers.

Apple CEO Tim Cook warned last week that memory and disk costs were increasing at an unsustainable level and therefore price increases for its products would be inevitable.

According to the news in the Financial Times, the price of the iPhone has not increased yet. iPhone accounts for half of Apple’s sales revenue.

With the increases, the price of the 512 GB MacBook Air increased from $ 1,099 to $ 1,299, and the price of the 256 GB iPad Pro increased from $ 999 to $ 1,199. The price of MacBook Neo, the more affordable laptop Apple launched in March, increased by 25 percent, from $599 to $749.