At a visitor lecture a senior researcher at Samsung Securities Analysis Middle acknowledged that the corporate had discovered it uncommon when Apple didn’t improve costs for the iPhone 16 (by way of Jukanlosreve on X). They went on to say that Samsung was anticipating Apple to extend the costs for the iPhone 17 collection.
That is one thing that has been haunting Samsung for some time now. The Galaxy S24 telephones are additionally dearer than the most recent iPhone 16 lineup. And now there are studies that Qualcomm goes to considerably jack up the costs of its upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 2.
That can make future Galaxy telephones much more costly till Samsung is ready to excellent its yields for Exynos manufacturing. The corporate can even go for MediaTek chipsets or inferior shows and cameras as an alternative if it doesn’t wish to make its telephones dearer.
If Samsung is anticipating iPhone 17 costs to go up (which they most likely will) I feel it’s protected to imagine it’s betting its personal pricing technique on that as nicely. Even when in some way the Galaxy S26 lineup comes with the identical price ticket as S25 it’ll nonetheless be dearer than its rivals until stated rivals additionally ship at the next price.
It additionally doesn’t assist that Galaxy S25 storage and RAM listings reveal that Samsung is lastly bringing again 16 GB of RAM. Samsung’s telephones typically have dearer specs inside (greater RAM and greater batteries) and as such have to price extra.
At this level the value distinction is so vast that even when the iPhone 17 is dearer it’ll nonetheless most likely price lower than the Galaxy telephones. And with Apple shifting to a different in-house part it’s now completely essential for Samsung to determine one thing out to keep up price parity.