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minus-squareStabbingSky@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·5 days 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-down5·5 days agosmartphones are essential in many places now.
minus-squareExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·5 days agoLuckily iPhone is far from the only smartphone anywhere in the world.
minus-squareStabbingSky@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·4 days agoAre iPhones the only smart phone that exists?
minus-squareesc@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·4 days agoNot really, what’s your point? They are smartphones.
minus-squareStabbingSky@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoThe discussion was about Apple products not being essential goods. It was not about smart phones in general being essential goods.
minus-squareundefinedValue@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoTheir point was made clear to everyone else
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.
The discussion was about Apple products not being essential goods. It was not about smart phones in general being essential goods.
Their point was made clear to everyone else