So this year we have four new iPhone 14 models and I think I'm just going to get to the point
here and ask the question why is the iPhone 14 more expensive in other countries at the
end of the day Apple advertise at their latest far out event but the price has not changed at
all in fact it is still the same for example let's take the iPhone 14 pro Max the starting
price is 1099 US Dollars and that price has not changed in years now the iPhone 13 Pro Max was
the same price the 12 Pro Max was the same price as you can see here so there's no difference but
yet why is it more expensive in other countries now there are lots of different reasons why it's
more expensive to buy an iPhone in another country but one of the first things I must
mention to you guys if you've never been to the USA so you guys in USA will know about this but
nobody else in the world will know you've never been there is to do with sales tax when Apple
actually advertised their brand new iPhone 14 pro Max for example 1099 US dollars when you actually
buy it that is not the price that you'll pay you actually have to pay sales tax and depending on
what state you live in in the USA depends on how much that tax will actually be and
I've got a couple of examples here for you so for example in New York City it will cost you actually
1196.54 for the iPhone 14 pro Max then if you went to the other side to the other
coast and actually decided to buy your iPhone from there where Apple HQ are in
California then actually the iPhone 14 pro Max would actually cost you 1
195.16 so that's about one and a half dollars a little bit less than New York City it's not
really that much but a lot of you guys don't actually know probably in the USA
that in other countries all around the world we actually have our sales tax actually built
into our prices so what the price you see on the label or what you see on Apple's website
is the price you're going to pay there's no extra tax to pay it's everything all in one
so for example here in the UK where I'm from the iPhone 14 pro Max costs 1199 pounds and just for
the record that is a hundred pounds more than it was last year for the iPhone 13 Pro Max then if
I start to move a little bit east around the world let's say we go to another country in Europe let's
say Germany let's see how much the iPhone 14 pro Max is there for the 128 gigabyte model it is
1449 euros and to be honest the dollars and the Euros are around about the same now in
their exchange rate and I've got a little chart to show this in a minute but let's continue to
move on around the world let's go to India next and in rupees for the iPhone 14 pro Max
it costs 139 900 rupees for the 128 gigabyte model then finally let's go a little bit more
even more East and let's go to the Philippines and let's see how much the price is there so it
would cost you 77 990 peso for the iPhone 14 pro Max and 128 gigabyte model and you're probably
wondering with all those different currencies in all those different countries what does that
translate to in US Dollars well funny enough I've actually got a chart for this and let's
run through that chart right now so if you were to translate the UK pounds it would actually come
out at 1 389 dollars and one cents and then in Euros in Germany that actually would come out at
1449.10 remember like I said the currencies are almost neck and neck with the euros and
the dollars as you can see here then in India with the rupees it would actually be
1762.63 and then in the Philippines for the peso it would actually end up being 1
367.40 and in fact just in case you're wondering I've actually trans isolates it the other way
around so say with California how much it costs there costs 1195 and 16 cents I've actually
translated that back to those countries currencies to see how much it would actually be worth so in
the UK if that 1195 it would actually be 1032 pounds in Germany the Euros it's basically the
same so it'll be 1195 euros and five cents in India it would be 94 913 60 rupees and in the
Philippines in peso it would be 68 168.55 so you're probably thinking at this stage
wow it's sales tax that is a huge amount well it's not just sales tax there are lots of other
factors that include two of why the prices are so more expensive in other countries you've got
to remember we've got shipping costs on ferries we've also got import taxes when actually that
product comes into your country your country can actually tax how much much they want to
take off air and obviously Apple have to get that money back they're not going to lose out
on it and you're the ones who can have to pay for those taxes but most importantly in the last few
years has actually been even more factors and one of those is actually how much your currency
is worth to other countries depending what the situation is going like in your country so right
now the US dollars is actually holding very very strong and this is why Apple haven't increased
the price in the USA because the currency is doing really really well at the moment compared to other
countries you must remember at the end of the day the last few years we've had covet and we've
covered a lot of factory shutdown production slow down and it's taking a long time still to actually
get products shipped out there and because of this there's more demand for products and with
that that actually causes prices to actually increase a good example of this of products
that are still taking a long time to meet demand is for example you've got that brand new steam
deck I managed to be fortunate to actually get my hands on one of these products and I absolutely
love my steam deck it took over four months to actually you come from me from its actual
release day and I actually pre-ordered this on the day on like the minute that you could pre-order
them and yeah it still took four months to get to me after the release date and it's not just
this either if you are an Xbox or a PlayStation fan you'll know that going into a shop right now
to go and pick yourself up a PS5 off the shelf it's impossible you're not gonna find one you
have to pre-order one or just be lucky when it comes in and quickly grab it off the shelf they
are gone instantly there is not enough to meet demand and in fact Apple have actually suffered
from this as well in recent months as well just have a look here at the Mac Studio let me just
pick like the M1 Ultra option and you can see here there is still a considerable wait time
the same with other Apple products as you know it's all slipped back in fact even the iPhone
14 has now slipped right back as you can see here at the time of making this video in mid-september
time like I said there are other factors too in Europe for example right now gas electricity is
gonna be a little bit harder to come by this winter and because of this prices have sold
up in the air and it's not helped with that Ukrainian War what's going on right now but
I guess that question is still open for Apple itself well why doesn't the price just stay the
same equivalent across all countries and like I said it comes down to that dollar weight to other
currencies Apple have to make the same amount of money equivalent in dollars and that's the weight
of the dollar in their own country so for example right now we can go on sort of currency exchange
websites which show the difference of say for example where I am here the pound to the dollar
sort of difference but it doesn't actually mean anything all it's doing is a translation of what
it means if the actual dollar is worth more at the day the pound will be worth less it's just
simple and how it works so don't actually use a Currency Exchange ring even though I just showed
a chart of that because it's not actually showing a true figure as you can see there are so many
different factors of why the actual prices are more expensive in other countries and in fact
what I would actually say is that some some companies out there have actually increased
their prices already on some of their products so for example with Sony with the PlayStation
5 for example they recently have announced that they've actually increased the price and this is
generally due to global economics as you know what I've just explained about so for example
here in the UK the PlayStation 5 costs 30 pounds more than it did say six months ago but the good
news is what Apple don't do is they never actually increase the prices of their product or the model
they've released so say for example the iPhone 13 Pro Max when it came out last year the price
remained the same throughout the whole year but when the iPhone 14 has come out this year say
here in the UK it's gone up the iPhone 40 Pro Max but the 13 Pro Max is still the same price they
have not changed it Apple are very good in that they don't increase the price throughout the year
depending what's going on in the world so we have to actually kind of be grateful at least for that
so if anything I would actually say depending on how the world's going to shape and shift in in the
next year it might be worth getting yourself an iPhone 14 this year because if the world's going
downhill with its economic sort of Crisis right now the iPhone 15 models are probably going to be
more expensive in your country so in conclusion the USA price has stayed the same and the main
reason this was the dollar is holding a lot of weight inside it whereas other countries sort of
global economics are not helping with things like gas electricity shortages import taxes uh sales
taxes could be even more the also the Ukrainian war is not helping either the sort of recovery
from covet is still ongoing that basically items are still hard to get hold of all of these factors
are just not helping and this is why maybe in your country right now that the iPhone 14 models
are more expensive than the iPhone 13 models that came out last year and with that guys I
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