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Foldable dreams, meet the receipt
Apple’s foldable story is apparently doing two jobs at once: building hype and padding the sticker price. According to Redburn, a foldable iPhone could lift average iPhone prices by roughly 11%, which is a polite way of saying the next big Apple upgrade might hit your wallet like a VIP concert ticket.
Why investors care
If Apple can charge more for the next shiny thing without scaring off buyers, that’s classic Apple magic — the kind that keeps margins happy and analysts writing “premium ecosystem” in every other sentence.
What this kind of call can mean:
- better pricing power if consumers bite
- a higher average selling price for iPhones
- more room for Apple to offset slower unit growth with richer hardware mix
The big Apple math
This isn’t just about a fancy hinge. It’s about whether Apple can keep doing what it does best: turn “same phone, but different” into a must-have upgrade cycle. If the foldable lands as a premium product, investors may start modeling fatter revenue per device instead of just counting units like they’re baseball cards.
Big picture: if Apple can make the next iPhone feel like a luxury item and a mass-market obsession at the same time, that’s the kind of pricing power Wall Street loves to squint at and call “durable.”