Relying on the place you reside, the HomePod Mini and the iMac could have simply gotten dearer. The Apple Publish famous that the corporate’s small good speaker went from £89 to £99 within the UK, and shops like MacRumors and 9to5Mac have reported the same €99 to €109 bounce in different European international locations like Austria, Eire, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
Within the UK, every pre-made iMac configuration additionally went up in value by £150. In France, iMac costs went up by €100 for the bottom mannequin and €110 for the opposite fashions, although they stayed the identical in Germany and Eire.
It’s laborious to discover a sample within the will increase. In New Zealand, the HomePod Mini’s value went from NZ$159.00 to NZ$179.00, whereas it stayed the identical in neighboring Australia. In the meantime, folks within the Netherlands have been paying the “elevated” €109 value because it turned obtainable within the nation in March, 2022.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for touch upon why the worth hikes had been occurring in sure places. Within the US, the HomePod Mini remains to be $99, the identical value it launched at.
Whereas Apple did technically add new software program options to its good audio system this week, giving them the power to sense temperature and humidity, it’d be laborious to argue that justifies elevating the worth, provided that the {hardware} was already included. In case you purchased a HomePod Mini the day it launched for €99, you’re getting this characteristic too by way of a software program replace.