{"id":1016976,"date":"2026-06-26T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016976"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:32:03","slug":"apple-raises-prices-of-macbooks-ipads-as-memory-costs-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/apple-raises-prices-of-macbooks-ipads-as-memory-costs-skyrocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads as memory costs skyrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry&#8217;s datacenter buildout. <\/p>\n<p>The move does not affect Apple&#8217;s main cash cow, the iPhone. But it would take starting price of the Neo &#8211; its lowest priced laptop aimed at winning marketshare from affordable Windows and Chromebook laptops &#8211; from $599 to $699 months after launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry&#8217;s datacenter buildout. The move does not affect Apple&#8217;s main cash cow, the iPhone. But it would take starting price of the Neo &#8211; its lowest priced laptop aimed at winning marketshare from affordable Windows and Chromebook laptops &#8211; from $599 to $699 months after launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016977,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016976\/revisions\/1016977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}