Apple price hikes could kick in as early as next week

Macworld
While most of the consumer tech industry has struggled to cope with rising component costs, Apple and its customers have remained largely unscathed, thanks to market leverage and preferential supplier contracts. But that state of affairs, as we’ve pointed out in the past, cannot last forever.Earlier this week, Macworld reported on an interview with Tim Cook in which the outgoing Apple CEO compared the RAM crisis to “a hundred-year flood” and acknowledged that the situa