How Have the Prices of Technological Tools Changed in the Last 6 Months?

According to TUIK data; during the months of December and June inflation rate 19.77% declared as. However, the rate of inflation felt by us as consumers may be slightly higher. Because in the last 6 months, many products have increased.

In particular, technological tools have had their share of the rise in the dollar exchange rate and inflation. The dollar rate, which was around 18 TL in December last year; When we came to the end of June, it found 25 TL. well last How have the prices of technological products changed in the 6-month period (January to July 2023)?

The iPhone 13 was valued like gold with a 56% hike.

In January of last year iPhone 13 with 16,299 TL, Around 26 thousand TL until 6 months ago was being sold. However, in this July, the iPhone 13 also got its share from the latest price hikes for Apple products. price is 40,677 TL output.

So we passed at the beginning of the year we can get 2 from the phone, we can only get 1 now.

The Samsung S22 Ultra, on the other hand, was not as affected by these hikes as the iPhone 13.

The previous generation, the S22 Ultra, went online in January just before Samsung launched the S23 Ultra in February. about 31 thousand TL could be found. After the release of the S23 Ultra, the prices of the previous series began to fall. However, Samsung phones could not withstand the inflation and the rise in the dollar.

As a result, although the price of the phone has dropped for a while, currently on Samsung’s website from 41,999 TL finds buyers. (The tax hike has not yet been reflected in the prices.)

Smart watches, one of today’s most fashionable technological gadgets, did not stand still in this process.

One of Apple’s most popular models. Apple Watch 8approximately It increased its price from 10 thousand TL to 13,728 TL.

We can say that different brands of smart watches are not as high as Apple. You know that since last year, Apple has Increase in all products 3 times made. However, smartwatch prices have also increased more than other brands.

Speaking of other brands; Huawei smart watches had a bumpy price chart during this time, but they did not receive much raise in general. 5.400 TL at the beginning of January Huwei Watch GT 3 Pro, which is in the band, now for 5,598 TL can be obtained. It is possible to see similar price increases for other models. This also applies to other smartwatch brands such as Samsung and Xiaomi.

The situation is a little different for airfryers, one of the most popular technological tools of 2022-2023.

As you know, a number of changes have been made to the taxation of airfryers in the past months. Even the cheapest airfryers imported with the new regulation to be taxed over $100 started.

While this meant a hike for affordable imported airfryers, it also meant some discount for higher-priced products. For this reason, at the beginning of the year The price of the Philips XXL Airfryer, which is about 8,400 TL, is also 5,800 TL. fell on the band.

Console players are upset because the Xbox and PlayStation prices have also been affected by the hikes.

If you bought the Xbox Series S earlier in the year, you could consider yourself lucky. Because to own an Xbox Series S, you currently need to pay about 3 thousand TL more. in January 7 thousand TL console, sold on the band Currently about 10 thousand TL.

The same is true for PlayStation. The price of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 is also from January to this month. 3 thousand TL increase showed.

Fiat Egea, which increased by 88 thousand TL in one night, increased by 71% in the last 6 months.

Fiat Egea is still one of the most affordable cars. However The price of 374.900 TL at the beginning of 2023unfortunately today for 643.900 TL is out. Therefore, although we continue to define it as ‘the cheapest’, it is not easy to own a Fiat Egea anymore.

We came to electric scooters, which sometimes disrupt the traffic and sometimes are our escape from the traffic.

Although Istanbul used to be the first city that came to mind when we said “traffic”, this situation is changing day by day. Because, day by day, traffic has become a problem in our relatively smaller cities. All electric scooters that make it easier to avoid traffic, since January price increase of approximately 3 thousand to 7 thousand TL lived.

Even the most affordable cars in Turkey almost millions of dollars out, electric scooters have been hiked. Obviously, we will have a hard time leaving the house this year, at least we thought we should get some fresh air in our house…

Of course, the air purifiers also got a raise.

Fear not, luckily the hike in air purifiers; Not as painful as the others. Because many of us still the quality of the air we breatheas much as the phone we use we don’t care.

Air purifiers of almost all brands in the last 6 months A raise of around 1-2 thousand TL took.

Since we are sitting at home, if we buy Game Pass and play 1-2 games; Now we do it more expensive.

As you know, Game Pass has increased as of July 6, 2023. Computer and console subscriptions From 29.99 TL to 79.99 TL; If the Ultimate subscription It went from 44.99 TL to 120.99 TL. (Approximately 166% hike applied.)

Amazon Prime membership fees, which have not been raised for a long time, have finally (!) increased.

Amazon Prime is especially loved by gamers. With the same membership can watch serialto your favorite broadcasters Can subscribe with Primevia Amazon advantageous shopping can and free in-game content you can access. Moreover, you could have all these by paying only 7.99 TL per month; until the last few months.

Amazon Prime, We can buy it for 7,99 TL the only thing He will have realized that he has 1 bread or Amazon Prime membership, which is approximately equal to the subscription fee last month. 400% applying a raise; It went up to 39.99 TL.

We took 2 pictures with our friends. iCloud prompts “Your storage is full!” he warned.

Now we think twice even when taking pictures with our friends. Because with the new pricing:

• Monthly 6.49 TL the one which… 50GB storage space for 12.99 TL,
• 19.99 TL the one which… 200GB storage space for 39.99 TL,
• 2TB If iCloud storage From 64.99 TL to 129.99 TL output.

So all iCloud storage packages 100% hiked it happened. You will say “What do we not give 40 TL a month to?” You are right, but when all your subscriptions you pay for each month are combined, you can see that a lot of money comes out of our pocket.

It hasn’t been a very bright 6 months for computer gamers either because almost all games have been hiked.

As you know, a short time ago, Steam updated the exchange rate and the dollar rate calculated over 1.8 TL was increased to 10 TL. This caused many games to be hiked up to 400%. The new and old prices of a few of the games most affected by the hikes were as follows:

• The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt: From 59.99 TL to 249.99 TL,
• Dark Souls III: From 179 TL to 899 TL,
• Red Dead Redemption 2: From 299 TL to 1150 TL,
• Grand Theft Auto V: From 169 TL to 550 TL output.

There was also a need for a processor that could handle these games.

Intel and AMD, which are among the first brands that come to mind when it comes to processors, have been in fierce competition for a while. In terms of prices, we can say that both brands applied fair price hikes. For Intel’s most popular some of the models between 10-20% while raising, On the AMD side, a 20 to 40% hike Done.