{"id":540882,"date":"2026-06-18T02:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/540882\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:50:11","slug":"we-did-the-math-on-why-the-iphone-18-pro-could-cost-1299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/540882\/","title":{"rendered":"We Did the Math on Why the iPhone 18 Pro Could Cost $1,299"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"18\">The global memory-chip shortage is coming for the <a data-type=\"subject\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/subject\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"18\"><a data-type=\"company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple<\/a> <a color=\"var(--color-inkSubtle)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/AAPL\" class=\"css-1fr2kw9-ChicletStyle e1vl9ktx2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AAPL -1.10%decrease; down pointing triangle<\/a> isn\u2019t immune to <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/apple-price-increases-memory-supply-199845b1?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\">soaring chip prices<\/a>, Chief Executive Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal. When asked which devices would be getting price increases and when, Cook responded, \u201cWe\u2019re still working through that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The global memory-chip shortage is coming for the iPhone. Apple AAPL -1.10%decrease; down pointing triangle isn\u2019t immune to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[98521,311,5505,98520,5149,82629,15490,13782,41565,18,41579,3334,232158,19,82633,82634,41586,82635,17,3521,232160,232161,232162,6403,82656,14965,279,24084,1316,98519,2983,232159,9436,44285,19506,26243,82,20783,41580],"class_list":["post-540882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-aapl","tag-apple","tag-cell","tag-cell-mobile-phones","tag-computers","tag-computers-consumer-electronics","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-eire","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-gfx-reporting","tag-ie","tag-industrial-electronics","tag-industrial-goods","tag-industrial-news","tag-integrated-circuits","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260617008980","tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003669433","tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003669433","tag-living","tag-living-lifestyle","tag-manufacturing","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-devices","tag-mobile-phones","tag-personal-electronics","tag-personal-technology","tag-personaljournal","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-semiconductors","tag-synd","tag-technology","tag-telecommunications-equipment","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}