Apple already have such high profit margins and I’m pretty sure the next iPhones would be priced 100-200$ extra
The era of cheap high-end computing is likely over. And it'll be used to pressure people into switching to thin clients and ever-more subscriptions
High-end desktops were already a niche market, with many home users just using phones+tablets as their main devices.
The entire games industry is already in a big crash too, and with consoles approaching $1k for 6yr-old hardware (Xbox just had another price hike) it might not bounce back this time. A new generation of consoles isn't going to find such a huge market with 4-figure price tags, especially when there won't be a giant leap in visuals/capability.
But even if things recover in a few years, Apple makes a lot of money from massive markups on RAM and storage and not allowing upgrades. If their customers keep paying, and I suspect they will, there'll be no incentive to bring prices down, not for the higher-end devices at least.
Natural monopolies are a thing, and chip production has become pretty close to one with the vast resources and timescales required to attempt to compete.
I'm pretty sure prices are going down. Maybe not complete builds in nominal dollars, but $/gb for things like RAM and SSDs will be lower in 5 years than it is today almost certainly.
Why would this be the case? I don't see a fundamental market failure.
By the way OpenAI has postponed their IPO until next year 2027.
Well, pure capitalism. I suppose the terms are synonymous, though.