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Apple, hiking iPad and Mac prices. Apple increases prices on iPads and Macs due to surging memory chip costs. Ooh, showing up. Specifically, you had the iPad Air go from $600 to $749. The MacBook Air from $1,100 to $1,300. And the MacBook Pro from $1,700 to $2,000. And I imagine people are not happy. That's correct. You've got Tim Cook had warned that hikes are unavoidable amid the supply shortages and consumers are reacting with frustration over higher costs for these devices. Let's see if we can see any sentiment down here. Oh, Sharp said something. Please stop, guys. I guess I'm going to have to sell my kidney to get the M4 now. It is crazy. And so for anyone who doesn't understand the context here is that because of all this AI stuff, compute is at an all-time premium. So people are just spending crazy amounts of money. And because the people who are buying the most have the most money, they pay whatever cost. And so then that gets trickled down to the end consumer because it's more of a free market, unlike Canadian real estate. So natural market forces will move things up or down accordingly. So, yeah. That's where we're at, folks. You know, this is how it's going to go. If you enjoyed this, be sure to hit that like button and follow to stay up to date with what's going on in the world and everything else memes and markets. Peace.