Why a Tariff-Inflated $2k iPhone Is Nothing to Fear

> Don’t panic. Even if tariffs did cause the iPhone’s price to surge, we would have plenty of cheaper options, like buying last year’s phone model instead of the latest and greatest.

Sort of like all those cheap used cars we could buy during the COVID supply chain disruption...?

I'm on board for the overall gist of the article (recycling old tech is very viable for most people these days), but the framing of this message around tariffs making new tech much more expensive just seems to ignore basic supply and demand factors which would pretty obviously drastically increase the prices of used tech.

I feel like this is a moot point since Apple also manufactures iPhones in India.

The base iPhone 16 costs $800 now. $2,000 for an "American" version doesn't even seem like enough.