Last month, iSuppli did a "virtual teardown" of the new Apple iPhone 3G and came to the preliminary conclusion that it cost $173 USD to manufacture before IP royalties and other costs such as development and shipping. Today however, the company has released the results of their physical teardown analysis and their conclusion was almost identical. The 8GB model costs $174.33 to produce, before ... [ read the full article ]
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Keep in mind this is just still a big GUESS on costs...seems to be a lot of "Source Unidentifiable" parts in the list for them to know exactly what they cost. And how much of each iPhone is paying for R&D, royalty and support costs?
Stories like this really don't mean much, though some will probably use it as an anti-Apple rant about them being a big ripoff or whatnot.
Originally posted by xnonsuchx: Keep in mind this is just still a big GUESS on costs...seems to be a lot of "Source Unidentifiable" parts in the list for them to know exactly what they cost. And how much of each iPhone is paying for R&D, royalty and support costs?
Stories like this really don't mean much, though some will probably use it as an anti-Apple rant about them being a big ripoff or whatnot.
youre right i will use it. apple gets away with murder just because they look pretty, and have well implemented marketing.
i doubt their reign can last more than 3 years from now. i predict their market share dropping 40% in 3 years. either that, or they keep the same market share and use competitive prices. But that's not going to happen.
the price is insane here in ireland
it costs just 49 eur with o2 but this is the sickener 100 EURO TARIF PER MONTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR 12 MONTHS
