{"id":282071,"date":"2026-06-25T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/why-samsung-may-welcome-apples-most-expensive-iphone-yet-asia-news-network\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:00:36","slug":"why-samsung-may-welcome-apples-most-expensive-iphone-yet-asia-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/why-samsung-may-welcome-apples-most-expensive-iphone-yet-asia-news-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Samsung may welcome Apple\u2019s most expensive iPhone yet \u2013 Asia News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Samsung may welcome Apple\u2019s most expensive iPhone yet \u2013 Asia News Network<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/asianews.network\/why-samsung-may-welcome-apples-most-expensive-iphone-yet\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-25 21:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: asianews.network<\/a><\/p>\n

June 26, 2026<\/p>\n

SEOUL <\/strong>\u2013 Samsung Electronics may have an unlikely reason to welcome Apple\u2019s first foldable iPhone: The more Apple charges for it, the less shocking Samsung\u2019s own prices will look.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Samsung\u2019s 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 \u201csignificantly lower\u201d than Apple\u2019s first foldable, which IDC sees arriving near a \u201cmassive sticker price of $2,500.\u201d<\/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\u2019s 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<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pressure is no longer theoretical. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told The Wall Street Journal that price increases were \u201cunavoidable\u201d as memory and storage costs surged, in a shock he likened to a \u201chundred-year flood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Popal was not surprised. With memory costs roughly tripling this year, no vendor can absorb them. What surprised her was the timing. The CEO saying it before launch, in her view, was \u201ca deliberate and smart move\u201d by Apple to get buyers used to the idea.<\/p>\n

Samsung has no such room to manage the message, and the squeeze is already in its numbers. Its mobile division\u2019s operating profit fell 35 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, even with strong Galaxy S26 sales, because component costs rose faster than prices could follow.<\/p>\n

Some Korean analysts now project the…<\/p>\n

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