RAM Prices on Mac where never reasonable.

Upgrade prices where never reasonable.

Why would Apple ever reduce upgrade prices just because they might save 100$ on a CPU?

And why would you assume that the development of your own inhouse ARM CPU would make such a financial difference? After all, you have to develop a CPU.

And what? Apple reports over 25% profit; Why would you even assume that Apple is doing anything for you? They could easily reduce there profit margin for you. They don't.

It's a fallacy to believe that costs have anything to do with prices, except as a lower bound.

I wonder how much they’ll save. They sell millions of cpus and can distribute the engineering cost across them, but compared to amds/intels processor numbers it seems small.

Plus it seems that the fact that they now need developer to write video drivers/ compiler optimizations etc are all additional costs.

They payoff can be big, but so are the risks.

Anyway Apple charges too much for DRAM capacity CTO option so Apple could cut prices now if they wish.