It's pretty wild that Apple has held prices down the last few years in the face of elevated inflation. I decided to calculate the inflation-adjusted price of every iPhone ever, and the 15 line are some of the most affordable (in 2023 dollars).
But the take aways are:
- iPhone 15 is cheapest base model since the OG iPhone in 2007
- 15 Plus is cheapest large iPhone ever
- 15 Pro is cheapest pro ever (and $250 cheaper than the first Pro model, the iPhone X).
The FTC is actually in the process of finalizing new regulations that would target abuses like these. Unfortunately, they only apply to the united states so will likely have little effect. This post goes into why the FTC's proposed regulations are likely to fail. https://www.perfectrec.com/posts/why-the-ftcs-new-fake-revie...
What's your biggest wirecutter fail? I remember when they recommended Cisco Webex for pandemic era work-from-home newbies looking for easy video confrencing.
Interesting distinction. Would they have earned your trust from a pre-affiliate era, or just from other non-review content you’ve consumed (assuming all of their review posts / YouTube videos have affiliate links?)
Apple may use NetPromoter internally, but on the earnings calls they are citing satisfaction surveys from 451 Research.
In 2018, they shared some of the response categories from the survey. They are customer satisfaction questions "Very Satisfied, Somewhat satisfied." Not recommendation questions.
Thank you for reading! I don't think they are manipulating the data, rather that they are surveying an unrepresentative population of tech enthusiasts, and presenting it as if representative of the entire customer base.