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minus-squareStabbingSky@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·2 months agoYou’re absolutely correct. Price gouging is when you significantly raise the price of essential goods during an emergency. Like selling water for $20 a bottle in the aftermath of an earthquake. Apple products aren’t essential goods.
minus-squareesc@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down5·2 months agosmartphones are essential in many places now.
minus-squareExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 months agoLuckily iPhone is far from the only smartphone anywhere in the world.
minus-squareStabbingSky@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·2 months agoAre iPhones the only smart phone that exists?
minus-squareesc@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·2 months agoNot really, what’s your point? They are smartphones.
minus-squareundefinedValue@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoTheir point was made clear to everyone else
minus-squareStabbingSky@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoThe discussion was about Apple products not being essential goods. It was not about smart phones in general being essential goods.
You’re absolutely correct. Price gouging is when you significantly raise the price of essential goods during an emergency.
Like selling water for $20 a bottle in the aftermath of an earthquake.
Apple products aren’t essential goods.
smartphones are essential in many places now.
Luckily iPhone is far from the only smartphone anywhere in the world.
Are iPhones the only smart phone that exists?
Not really, what’s your point? They are smartphones.
Their point was made clear to everyone else
The discussion was about Apple products not being essential goods. It was not about smart phones in general being essential goods.