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O'Driscoll: Apple will raise iPhone prices rather than accept lower margins

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Rory O'Driscoll (General Partner at Scale Venture Partners) discusses how soaring AI DRAM memory costs will force Apple to pass price increases on to consumers.

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“Specifically what it's going to mean is Apple is clearly decided wisely not to swallow the loss and lower their margins. They're just going to raise prices. And they'll sell a few less iPhones because it's probably, you know, there's some price elasticity. And everyone will just have to pay more for their iPhone.”

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