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The consumers based in the United States should have an expectation for the future: their technology will be more expensive. The most obvious culprit is Trump’s tariffs and already prices for televisions, wearables, PC equipment, play equipment, chargers and many other product categories more demand from your wallet than a month ago. Companies have made radical changes in their price structure without saying customers or even using the word “tariffs”. While Big Tech tries to stay in President Donald Trump’s good grace, the rest of the United States will pay for it.
Some technical brands, such as Acerhave expressly blamed the tariffs why they increased the prices for their products by 10%. Nintendo first pulled Pre -orders of his switch 2 At the beginning of this month, citing tariffs. After Offer a new pre -order dateThe company informed the customer that it had increased the price for several controllers and other accessories. There are many, many other examples of the Stealth Prize equipment.
This year’s television like the Bravia 8 II from Sony now cost 4,000 US dollars at 65 inches than the previous one A95L OLED display From 2023, 3,500 US dollars went at the start. Samsung’s latest 8K TVThe QN990F is sold for 6,500 US dollars at 75 inches. Last year QN900D Sat at 6,300 US dollars for the same size. No company has given an explanation of the reason for the increased costs, but we all know why.
Even if you increase prices, only a few companies will use the “t” word loudly, whether this can be concerned about how the consumers can react, or not in order not to catch the anger of the moody managing director of America. On Tuesday, the retail giant Amazon was caught in a political fire storm of his own design. Punchbowl news, citing a single anonymous source, suggested Amazon would show the tariff markup For every affected product. That would be a big deal. CBS quoted Data from SmartScout from Analytics software manufacturers, the sellers as large as big as anchor– The manufacturer of popular household appliances and portable chargers – has increased an average of 30% since April 2, an average of 30%, also known as “day of liberation”.
It would have been one of the few pro consumer actions for which the website is best known Kill the independent bookstores has taken since its foundation. Unfortunately for buyers, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has one Comfortable relationship with Trump. After the press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said reporters: “This is an enemy and political act,” Amazon told Gizmodo that the idea for “listing import changes for certain products” was only a consideration for Amazon and Shein Clone from Amazon, was only a consideration for Amazon and Shein Clone. Amazon Transport.
Both Amazon and Trump’s reaction to the controversy indicate a simple fact: products become more expensive and only a few are ready to say how and why. The Trump world can live in its imaginary bladder that companies do not increase costs if they are faced with 145% tariffs from China, but the companies themselves hope that consumers do not notice if the prices are collected.
As compiled by Youtuber Cameron DoughertyLogitech Logitech increased the costs for almost half of all the most popular equipment, such as the MX vertical ergonomic mouse and MX -KEYS S, the prices of which both rose by $ 20. The G915 x Lightspeed TKL Gaming keyboard rose from $ 200 to $ 230. Logitech did not immediately respond to GIZMODOS request for comment.
Smaller brands and companies in more niche hobbies were more ready to talk about the effects of tariffs, but others kept mom. MSI increased the costs of its gaming handhelds, the Klue 7 AI+ and Klue 8 AI+at 100 to 900 US dollars or $ 1,000. Personally, I was in the process of writing a review for the Beastly MSI Titan 18 HX Gaming laptop just to find out that the computer company had increased the cost of its laptop of 5,000 US dollars by several hundred dollars. MSI did not answer my inquiries about whether the price was due to tariffs. You would be lucky enough to buy an MSI product in the US update GPU integrated to Intel’s ARC 140V.
In some cases, prices have increased closer to 50%. OnePlus shocked the fans of his wearables at the beginning of this month when his OnePlus Watch 3 took it from the expected $ 330 up to $ 450. In a explanation shared with GIZMODO, OnePlus Marketing boss Spenser Blank said that the company had updated the prices for the Watch 3 of 500 to 350 US dollar. This change was due to “recent adjustments in our supply chain”, which made it possible for us to pass some savings on to consumers. Customers who bought the wearable at a bloated price can contact the company to adapt the price, even though OnePlus stated that it was turning to these customers to talk about the refund.
OnePlus is the exception, and yet the price of its watch is 3 higher than before. Companies may be waiting to find out whether Trump finally withdraws from his trade war, which aims at every land mass on earth, whether it is occupied by other people or waddling penguins. The damage has already been done. Companies are far less likely that prices will reduce the tariffs before Trump introduced the tariffs. Many technology companies, Like AppleHave already started to reorganize supply chains and bring the production to India, and away from countries that were heavier from Trump tariffs. That costs money, and if every company increases prices in tandem, we can only expect that today’s new costs are our new normality.
