Apple To Launch HomePod In India At Lower Price Than All Other Markets [BEST]
With the lower price tag and the likelihood that users will put multiple HomePod minis throughout their homes, it will make your HomeKit home more reliable as there will always be a Home Hub within reach of your accessories and another available should one go offline for whatever reason.
Apple to launch HomePod in India at lower price than all other markets
The first-generation HomePod was announced on June 5, 2017, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.[5][6] Its planned December launch was delayed:[6][7] Apple began taking orders on January 26, 2018, and released it on February 9, 2018.[8] The HomePod received mixed reviews: it was praised for its design and sound quality compared to other speakers of its price, and criticized for lack of third-party support and high price compared to other smart speakers. The first-generation HomePod sold an estimated 1 to 3 million units through August 2018. It was discontinued on March 12, 2021.[9]
Strategy Analytics estimated that around 600,000 HomePods were sold in the first quarter of 2018, making it the 4th-best-selling smart speaker brand after Amazon, Google and Alibaba, giving Apple a 6% market share in the industry.[25] The HomePod also had 6% market share in the United States according to a report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners and sold an estimated 700,000 units worldwide in the second quarter of 2018.[26] Also in the second quarter of 2018, Strategy Analytics estimated that the HomePod outsold all smart speakers that cost more than $200, giving Apple a 70% market share in premium brand smart speakers.[27] As of mid-2018, the HomePod had sold an estimated 3 million units.[28] Sales increased 45% in Q4 2018, with Apple selling 1.6 million units that quarter.[29] In April 2019, Apple reduced the price to US$299.[30] In March 2021, the price got reduced to 279.[31] As of May 2021, Apple was still reportedly selling units manufactured for the HomePod's launch stock.[32]
The company's ability to create demand through its product differentiation, brand royalty, hype around the launch of new product and innovative advertising has given it the power to set prices higher than other companies.
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As you can see, there is a clear price differential of Rs 5,000 between the launch prices of the 128 GB and the 256 GB variants of the iPhone 12 and 12 mini, and the iPhone 13 and 13 mini, and rather remarkably, the new iPhones are actually lower priced.
A little law and economics background needs to be provided to show the importance of the intervention. Microeconomics does not yield shareholder value maximization as the purpose of the firm as a primary proposition. Indeed, in a frictionless world with complete markets, optimality would mean maximizing the yield to every actor connected to the firm rather than just the yield to the shareholders. Shareholder primacy emerges once frictions and incomplete markets are interpolated. It follows from four more particular assertions: first, an instruction to maximize for multiple constituents would be incoherent; second, the shareholder interest, as the residual interest, points management in the most productive direction; third, the shareholders are vulnerable, relatively speaking, because other firm constituents can protect themselves with contracts; and, fourth, a multiple constituent model would lack yardsticks with which to measure management performance, where the shareholder model can measure performance with standard metrics like the stock price and periodic earnings.
Increasing demand for grains in emerging countries such as China and India and two successive years of severe drought in Australia, an important contributor to world supply, could never in and of themselves have caused the huge price hikes we're experiencing. World demand for grain for food use increased only 1.3% annually between 2000 and 2007--only 0.3% annually, in fact, in all of East Asia, including China. Australia's droughts reduced global grain exports by 4% in 2006 and 2007. Consequently, one must look at other factors to understand the spike in food prices: high energy costs, increased fertilizer prices and the weakening of the U.S. dollar. But to get the complete picture, one cannot ignore the severe protectionist distortions, both new and old, that have crippled the much needed supply response in world food markets.
It is clear, however, that the most damaging distortions in agricultural markets originate in rich countries. There's little doubt that the present spiral in grain prices is closely linked to U.S. and EU policies enacted to boost production of biofuels. The American and European governments subsidize the production of biofuels, limit their import and mandate their use. The exact extent to which these policies have impacted food prices is still a matter of contention, but not even the most enthusiastic proponents of ethanol can deny that by inducing a greater allocation of agricultural resources toward biofuel production, the amount of grain available for food has been reduced. According to the World Bank, while global production of corn increased by 51 million tons from 2004 to 2007, biofuel use of corn in the U.S. alone increased by 50 million tons, thus leaving no margin to satisfy the increase of 33 million tons in global consumption for other uses during the same period. This explains why some respectable experts, such as the former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a top World Bank agricultural economist, have imputed a large proportion of the rise in food prices to the growing use of food crops for fuel.