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Re: Increased ETF justified; bogus $1.99 data fees not said by Skippy25:I believe more than one site has tore the iPhone apart and determined it's cost to manufacture is around $100. This is such nonsense.
a) Cost to manufacture and cost to run a successful publicly traded company while supporting your device in its current stage and advancing it to the next are two TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT SHOULD NEVER BE COMPARED.
b) None of these sites knows what the cost of the parts are. They could be more, they could be less, but they can't get an exact or even estimate fix on how much it costs to manufacture it. You have to look at so many different variables. It is difficult to calculate exact manufacturing cost per item even if you are the company doing the manufacturing. I sincerely doubt an unauthorized third party is able to come up with a legitimate estimate.
Have you ever tried to bring a commercial electronics device to the manufacturing stage?
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EVERY device can be taken apart and have every core part analyzed and priced. It is done for the major consoles, it has been done on several phones and it will continue to be done.
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thenderScreen tycoonPremium
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3 edits | You have no idea: absolutely no idea the exact or even estimate total cost to bring a device like this to market. To claim you do is ridiculous. You can't know all the intricacies involved unless you're a part of the team bringing it to market.
It costs money to pay people to tell you how to integrate everything you pick apart into a finished device. There's shipping, there's supporting the device. There is so much more to it than your narrowminded view of what it costs to make.
Do you really think the cost of the iPhone is the cost of its parts alone? Really?
Even if you did know the exact cost per unit, which you don't, a publicly traded company has every right to profit off their work. It's how they make better stuff down the line.
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