TNB Tech Minute: Apple Hikes Prices for Macs and iPads
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | Here's your morning T&B Tech Minute for Thursday, June 25th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.5 | As of this morning, |
| 0:44.6 | Apple's computers and iPads are more expensive. Last week, CEO Tim Cook told the journal in an interview that higher component costs, driven by surging demand from AI companies, made price |
| 0:49.0 | increases, quote, unavoidable. Apple briefly took down its online store early today, and when it came back, |
| 0:55.2 | the price tags for Mac computers were as much as 20% higher, and iPad prices rose up to 25% higher. |
| 1:02.5 | iPhone prices remained the same, but in a statement, Apple hinted at more increases to come. |
| 1:08.2 | The European Union says Amazon and Microsoft should be required to take extra |
| 1:12.4 | steps to ensure they aren't stifling cloud computing competition under the Block's Digital Markets Act. |
| 1:17.9 | EU officials said today that preliminary findings showed Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure |
| 1:22.9 | had revenue, operations, and investments that seemed to have significantly outpaced their competitors, |
| 1:28.4 | on top of their vast user bases. |
| 1:30.9 | Officials said the company's AI tools and partnerships are fueling a demand for cloud services, |
| 1:35.6 | which both tech giants appear to retain within their ecosystems. |
| 1:39.0 | An AWS spokesperson said it disagrees with the findings and will continue to work with the |
| 1:43.3 | commission on the matter. A Microsoft spokesperson also said the continue to work with the commission on the matter. |
| 1:44.8 | A Microsoft spokesperson also said the company would work with the EU. |
| 1:49.0 | And BlackBerry lifted its 2027 fiscal outlook thanks to higher first quarter results driven by embedded software growth. |
| 1:56.3 | The company, whose name was once synonymous with the early smartphone era, said it sees expanding opportunities |
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