Memory won't be an issue for Apple in the near term due to its contracts with suppliers, and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that Apple will not increase iPhone 18 prices
Memory won't be an issue for Apple in the near term due to its contracts with suppliers, and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that Apple will not increase iPhone 18 prices to compensate.

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Analysts have discussed the topic of the ongoing memory price rises affecting the tech industry at large. The general consensus is that Apple's supply chain won't be massively affected by it in the short term.

This is a forecast that TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has arrived at as well. In a Tuesday post to X, Kuo goes over the main points of the memory crisis, and how it both affects and doesn't harm Apple.


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