Apple has some famously loyal clients. But as broader financial forecasts get downgraded left and proper, it might be a tough time to persuade individuals to improve their iPhones.

Past the broader indicators of a worsening financial system, Apple can also be going through different headwinds because it prepares for the product launch subsequent week. Provide chain hiccups stemming from China’s zero-Covid coverage had been partly linked to the firm’s 11% year-over-year drop in quarterly earnings reported final month. Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner stated on the earnings name, nonetheless, that there was “no apparent proof of macroeconomic influence” to iPhone gross sales. Prepare dinner added that the firm even set a third-quarter file “for each income and switchers to iPhone,” including that “clients proceed to search out that iPhone stays the gold normal for smartphones.”

Steadfast iPhone gross sales are linked partly to different the predictions from some business insiders that Apple will hike up the worth of its newest iPhones — although it’s tough to foretell by simply how a lot.

In a analysis observe Monday, analysts Dan Ives and John Katsingris of Wedbush Securities predicted that Apple would elevate the worth of its newest higher-end fashions by some $100. “We imagine a $100 worth improve on the iPhone 14 Professional/Professional Max is probably going in retailer given part worth will increase in addition to added performance on this new launch,” the observe said. The cameras on the upcoming iPhone Professional fashions are rumored to be upgraded to presumably justify the worth improve, amongst different enhancements.

The Wedbush analysts additionally predicted robust underlying demand for the subsequent iPhone, estimating that some 240 million out of 1 billion iPhone customers worldwide haven’t upgraded their telephones in over three and a half years.

Wooden additionally famous that Apple’s iPhones are in some methods insulated from macroeconomic pressures. Customers are additionally more and more taking a look at smartphones as “virtually important,” in comparison with another tech devices. “Whether or not you actually need an iPhone or not, that is open to questions, however individuals who have an iPhone already are unbelievably loyal,” Wooden stated.

“I believe that Apple has some benefits over rivals,” he added. “There are people who find themselves all the time ready for a brand new iPhone.”

Apple, in its famously tight-lipped trend throughout the the lead-up to its product launches, didn’t reply to CNN Enterprise’ request for remark Monday on the newest iPhone prices. The corporate despatched out invitations final week for its September 7 occasion, which has been cryptically dubbed: “Far out.”

The occasion might be broadcast on Apple’s web site from the firm’s Cupertino, California, headquarters beginning at 1 p.m. ET.