I would be a lot more willing to accept the inflation argument if salaries at these companies were going up at inflation rates too.

Not unless you’re an executive, that is…

Pretty sure tariffs are part of the reason for the $80/90 price points

Fr. It’d be a forgettable bit of marketing, a tech demo no one really cares about if they’d included it free. With the price tag it turns from that into an anti consumer insult, a slap to the face to anyone who thinks they’re in this for any reason other than extracting as much money out of their consumers as they can get away with