A data cable, the price is as high as nearly 1,000 yuan!
Following the "sky-high" polishing cloth, Apple has launched a "sky-high" cable!
In the early morning of March 9, Apple held a spring new product launch conference and released six new hardware products: the new Mac Studio and Studio Display, the new generation of iPad Air, the new generation of iPhone SE, two new colors of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro. Studio Display comes with a 1m Thunderbolt 4Pro cable.
Subsequently, Apple's official website synchronously launched a 1.8-meter Thunderbolt 4Pro connection line, priced at 949 yuan. In addition, Apple will also launch a 3-meter connection line in the future, priced at 1169 yuan.
After this product was put on the shelves, it triggered heated discussion among netizens and quickly appeared on the hot search. Many netizens exclaimed: Poverty limits my imagination.
Some netizens said: Apple is selling luxury goods? Is gold made?
Some netizens joked: Apple is so good, he can obviously grab money but he still wants to give me a connection line.
Some netizens joked: So cheap? Give Grandpa a kilometer.
There are also netizens shouting Huaqiang North: Huaqiang North grasp it!
But there are also many netizens said that this line itself is expensive, the message said: this line is cheaper than five hundred, or other manufacturers, can not take the ordinary data line to compare.
Apple Thousand Metadata Line, is it worth the money? Or is it an "IQ tax"?
According to Apple's official introduction, this 1.8-meter connection cable adopts a black braided design, which is not easy to tangle when rolled up, and supports Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 data transmission, with a speed of up to 40Gb/s. USB 3.1 Gen 2 data transfer at rates up to 10Gb/s, DisplayPort video output (HBR3) and up to 100 watts of charging capacity.
Simply put, it is this kind of data cable that can make transmission faster and charging faster. For example, it takes less than 1 minute to transfer 20,000 photos with a Thunderbolt 4Pro cable. Transmit a 10-hour HD video in less than a minute. Such a speed is really fragrant.
Obviously, the Thunderbolt 4Pro cable is not an ordinary USB Type-C data cable, mainly for the group with The Thunderbolt 4 connection needs, it is a relatively niche product, and ordinary users do not need to use such a high-specification cable.
Search on the online shopping platform shows that the price of the same data line is generally not cheap, and the price of the 2-meter-sized Thunderbolt 4 data line is about 500 yuan. The price of the thunderbolt 4Pro data cable of the same specification is about 700 yuan.
In contrast, Apple's same specification data cable price is slightly more expensive than other brands, but most netizens said that the price of Apple Thunderbolt 4Pro data cable is reasonable.
Some netizens said: The data line of Raiden 4 Pro belongs to professional-level accessories, and the current domestic 2500MB/S Thunderbolt 4 data line is at the level of 500 yuan, for the image studio, 900 yuan to buy such a wire, it is more cost-effective.
There are also netizens said: Casually search for a Thunderbolt 4 without Pro 2 meter line to more than eight hundred, the cost of Apple Raiden 4 Pro line plus Apple's brand premium and taxes, 949 This price is completely expected.
All along, compared with other brands, Apple data line price is generally high, Apple's wire price is basically more than 100 yuan, Apple's lightning interface to USB original line, the price is 145 yuan, but other manufacturers A MFi charging cable price is only a few dozen yuan.
On Zhihu, some netizens posted questions: Why are the prices of Apple product accessories more expensive? The issue was viewed 2.56 million times, triggering a heated discussion among netizens.
In fact, the price of Apple accessories has not been low, iPhone transparent shell 399 yuan, magnetic charging treasure 749 yuan. In October last year, Apple sold a polishing cloth, priced at 145 yuan, which was complained about by netizens as a "sky-high rag", but this product was sold out as soon as it was sold, and some areas even had to wait for three months to get started.
In this regard, many netizens said: a willing to fight a willing to suffer, people who can afford to buy are not too expensive, do not buy if you can't afford to buy.
Some netizens also said: clear price, on-demand purchase, rational consumption.
Apple Thousand Metadata Line, do you think it's expensive? Everyone is welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.