Can you imagine all the productivity gains made by Apple throughout the years, all the optimizations in supply chains, seeking out cheap labor and still forced to raise prices.
they could just spend part of that 250$B into same real capacity for real long term contracts when Openai started buying. but exec., does not care I guess? too rich to care. if apple stock went down a lot, they would care, otherwise just increase prices and wait for retirement (whole company excluding entire hardware dep. )
Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732