Posted on 06/28/2026 11:44:05 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried Apple’s recent $200 price hikes on computers and tablets, which the tech giant blamed on a memory chip crunch — and called for breaking up Big Tech.
“We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far, far too big, and we need to be instituting consumer protections for people,” the New York Democrat told Fox News.
Most analysts believe the so-called “RAM-ageddon” crisis is a result of the rapid build-out of data centers to power artificial intelligence, which has turbocharged demand for memory chips.
Citing memory chip shortages, Apple jacked up prices last week on a handful of MacBook and iPads, in some cases by $200 or more. Price increases were about 15% to 20% for Macs and 15% to 25% for iPads.
“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal.
Some experts, including famed Apple whisperer Mark Gurman, have argued that the price hikes are a “new normal” for Apple and likely to stay even after the memory chip crunch gets resolved.
“Now [the price] to buy laptops, computers, iPads, electronics in general will go up, because the data centers are sucking up all of our own industrial supply, and so we’re paying in a lot of ways, we are subsidizing the development of a lot of data centers,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) contended.
“The problem that we have is that these big companies, they think they are governments, they want to be governments, they want to have totally unchecked power,” she later added. “I believe that we need to pursue antitrust, and we also need to give some more protections for consumers.”
She further dinged Big Tech companies for conducting mass layoffs over recent months and for pushing up energy prices for consumers...
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Speaking of unchecked power, any amount of power that moron commie has is too much.
Because Apple is a monopoly? As I type from my android.
Has anyone else noticed how much weight she has gained recently? Living high on the taxpayer’s dime for sure. Everything she says about the companies she claims are power hungry is exactly what she wants for herself.
The communist mindset in a nutshell. Would make a great campaign ad.
SHE MUST HAVE ALREADY EMPTIED THE TIP JAR???
I wonder if she thinks of all of the cash Apple gave to the Dems over the years.
I doubt she was good at bartending either. Probably only poured beers and shots and didn’t know the difference between a Manhattan and a Screwdriver.
.....Apple says AOC must be split up after her latest tirade!....
And I know some great taquerias that might need a new bartender!
... and the Bartender-Formerly-Known-As-Sandy, as ignorant, as unwise and as dumb as she persistently reveals publicly that she is, knows better than Apple management and Apple investors what Apple should charge for their products. Such arrogance coming from someone so ignorant of history and economics: A true Democ*nt.
Yup- i never purchased an Apple anything- Samsung phone and galaxy pad....
People could just stop buying a new phone every year.
Sigh...I always go the market way for correction.
Old fashioned I guess.
Said the person who actually wants unchecked power.
IOW, Tim Cook hasn’t donated enough $ to AOC or her PACs.
She leared about technology from the credit card thingie at the bar.
Democrats sound like the old 50’s & 60’s propaganda shortwave programs 24/7.
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