The AI boom is sending Apple and Xbox prices to the moon

On Thursday, Apple raised prices on basically every Mac, every iPad, the HomePod, the Apple TV, and the Vision Pro . Not a refresh-with-new-specs bump where they hand you a faster chip to soften the blow, but a global markup on hardware that didn't change, live on the store the same morning. Apple's stock fell 6.1%, its worst single day since April 2025 . The same day, Microsoft raised Xbox prices for the third time in 13 months . Apple put the blame squarely on 'the rapid expansion of AI data c