{"id":281031,"date":"2026-06-24T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/why-samsung-may-welcome-apples-most-expensive-iphone-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:05:11","slug":"why-samsung-may-welcome-apples-most-expensive-iphone-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/why-samsung-may-welcome-apples-most-expensive-iphone-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Samsung may welcome Apple’s most expensive iPhone yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Samsung may welcome Apple’s most expensive iPhone yet<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10788089<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-24 23:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.koreaherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Pricey foldable iPhone could give Samsung cover to raise Galaxy prices \u2014 while exposing growing pressure on its foldable lead<\/p>\n

Shoppers browse seven Galaxy Z Fold generations, lined up by thickness, at a Samsung store in Seoul during the Fold 7 launch in July 2025. The latest model has shrunk to 8.9mm folded, roughly half the original and close to an ordinary phone. (Newsis) <\/p>\n

Samsung Electronics may have an unlikely reason to welcome Apple’s first foldable iPhone: The more Apple charges for it, the less shocking Samsung’s own prices will look.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Samsung’s expected unveiling of its Galaxy Z Fold 8 series in London in late July, its mobile business is walking into a hard launch. Memory and processor costs are climbing, leaks point to higher Galaxy prices, and Apple, absent from the category for years, is expected to enter in September with what could be the most expensive iPhone ever made.<\/p>\n

Nabila Popal, senior research director at IDC, told The Korea Herald she expects Samsung to raise flagship foldable prices this year by about $100, and still to stay “significantly lower” than Apple’s first foldable, which IDC sees arriving near a “massive sticker price of $2,500.”<\/p>\n

That hands Samsung something it rarely gets from Apple: pricing cover. But cover is the only thing getting easier. The same cost shock is squeezing Samsung’s margins, and Apple is arriving as a third front after Motorola in the US and Huawei in China against a lead Samsung is already struggling to hold.<\/p>\n

The cost shock reaches Apple<\/p>\n

The pressure is no longer theoretical. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told The Wall Street Journal that price increases were “unavoidable” as memory and storage costs surged, in a shock he likened to a “hundred-year flood.”<\/p>\n

\"Apple Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on June 8. (AFP-Yonhap) <\/p>\n

Popal was not surprised. With memory costs roughly tripling this year, no vendor can absorb…<\/p>\n

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