We’ll just say this… If you thought the iPhone 17 Pro and its Max brethren were expensive last year, you’ve got another thing coming. Yeah, the iPhone 17 Pro is doing just fineYup, the iPhone 18 Pro — Apple’s ditching the base model ’til next year — will reportedly be $300 more expensive than last year. He now claims that both the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max will likely see a “$250–300 price hike… creating demand uncertainty despite resilient iPhone 17 builds. Last year’s iPhone 17 Pro sporting 256GB storage landed locally for R28,600 and built from there. Tack on another R5,000, and you’re looking at a R33,600 starting price for the iPhone 18 Pro.