New Apple Leak Fuels iPhone 15 Price Shock - Forbes

iPhone 15 prices are going up according to caller leaks, and present a mysterious caller root connected Weibo has added substance to those reports.

Writing connected the Chinese micro-blogging platform, the leaker states that “Apple volition summation the terms of this year's iPhone 15 Pro series, further widening the spread with the iPhone 15 Plus.” Earlier leaks had claimed iPhone 15 prices would decrease with the reversal causing daze among users. But this progressively looks to beryllium the lawsuit due to the fact that my sources person fixed maine a bully thought of the leaker’s identity, and their connection should beryllium taken seriously.

The caller leaker doesn’t supply prices, but past week $100 increases were mooted for some the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Ultra (the caller sanction for the Pro Max). This would make a $300 terms spread betwixt Pro and non-Pro models of the aforesaid size:

• iPhone 15 - from $799
• iPhone 15 Plus - from $899
• iPhone 15 Pro - from $1099
• iPhone 15 Ultra - from $1199

It’s an assertive determination designed to boost iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus sales, pursuing underwhelming demand for iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus models. It is simply a classical Apple solution, countering manufacture observers who thought terms cuts to modular models would beryllium the evident solution.

Note these terms increases are besides expected to beryllium applied globally. They volition beryllium successful summation to the 10-20% terms rises already made to the iPhone 13 range, increases that were driven by the US dollar’s increasing strength.

Interestingly, the Weibo leaker besides doubled down connected 2 caller revelations for non-Pro models: “the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are expected to travel with the Dynamic Island and a 48-megapixel main camera, which is simply a immense upgrade compared to the erstwhile 2 generations.”

Both of these upgrades were leaked past week, but it again adds credence to the reliability of those sources. iPhone 15 Pro and Ultra models are besides tipped to travel with a titanium chassis and dual beforehand cameras — upgrades that volition beryllium seen arsenic indispensable if customers are to swallow this latest circular of terms hikes.

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