Apple greediness
I can't figure out what's the issue of putting more storage into a laptop, phone or tablet. For example a 2TB ipad costs $1100 more than a 128GB ipad, while 2TB memory for an end consumer costs around $100. Does Apple want to force subscribe everybody to monthly cloud storage or there actually end consumers who buy 2TB or is it pure greediness that results in stock growth?
Greed
Well it is leverage more than anything else. Not ethical though, but who cares.
They should infact incentivize cloud storage. I think that's why Google pixel 8 only comes in 128Gb and offers 2TB cloud storage for free for 2 years. I think in coming years we'll see devices with only enough memory for apps and OS, everything else will be on the cloud. They will make these devices cheap to flood the market. Slowly phase out high memory ones or make both these incrementally expensive where cloud first devices are between 799-1199 and on device memory will get lot more expensive for any suckers that do want it and they'll call it customized devices and will likely be made on demand. Much higher profit margins that way with selling memory subscriptions
I wouldn't be surprised when my kid grows up the world has to pay apple and amazon for LAAS and DAAS.
Consumerism. Apple did their homework and found that people are willing to pay that much for storage and memory upgrades. Maybe not you, but others will.
Apple is so unethical they solder ssds to the motherboard so the consumer can’t replace them
How exactly is the free market unethical? Don’t like it, don’t buy it. It’s really as easy as that. Apple is the least monopolistic company of not only big tech, but any large company.
That’s an example of really going out of their way and common sense design to screw consumers. There’s no benefit to soldering ssds and only drawbacks. If a component breaks you have to discard the whole device. Right to repair laws exist for a reason
3T company for a reason.
Just like amazon become greedy by increasing prime membership fee, minimum amount fir free shipping and also stealing private sellers product etc etc etc.
If you check public reports you ll find out that amazon.com operational expenses are the same revenue. How is that greedy?
Marketing