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The $999 iPhone X costs Apple just $357.50 to make, experts reveal
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| 6 November 2017
Posted on 11/06/2017 6:18:27 PM PST by dennisw
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To: SkyDancer
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posted on
11/06/2017 6:41:25 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: House Atreides
Apple adds what they think they’re worth to the price of their products. Over priced junk.
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posted on
11/06/2017 6:44:35 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
To: dennisw
And tens of thousands of idiots will sleep in line for days to be the first to get them.
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posted on
11/06/2017 6:58:55 PM PST
by
Cyclone59
(Common sense can solve a lot of issues when applied properly)
To: CodeToad
It’s good to cover Product Development and production tooling early.
Then there is advertising to support the LSM and NFL.
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posted on
11/06/2017 7:03:04 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: dennisw
I left a $55 dollar white dress shirt made for about 25cent in Bangladesh sitting at the Kohl’s checkout counter this evening.
To: proxy_user
They should be adding the cost of the bill of materials and the cost to assemble. That’s the manufacturing cost.
Development costs cover the software, hardware, and other one time costs that go into realizing a product.
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posted on
11/06/2017 7:23:27 PM PST
by
edh
(I need a better tagline)
To: dennisw
I've always said that Apple prices their products too cheaply. They could easily double the price of everything in their catalog and almost the same amount of people would still buy the products.
Seriously, the iPhone is incredibly under-priced when you consider all that it does. Back in the early 1990s, I paid almost $3,000 for a computer with a 20MHz processor, 2MB of RAM and a 80MB hard drive. Yes, 80MB - which is barely enough to hold one album of MP3s!
The typical iPhone of today is millions of times faster than all the computing power of NASA during the moonshots.
Like I said, the iPhone is incredibly underpriced.
To: dennisw
Restaurants easily charge 3 times the cost of ingredients. Starbucks probably charges 30 times.
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posted on
11/06/2017 7:39:57 PM PST
by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
To: dennisw
I’m sure that just like with the Pharma industry reporting, they aren’t including the research and development costs and only the physical manufacturing costs.
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posted on
11/06/2017 8:03:59 PM PST
by
reed13k
To: proxy_user
Thank you for pointing this out. The huge majority of people have NO CLUE of how to arrive at a realistic cost of production.
To: Gay State Conservative
I paid $150 for a phone that does everything I want and then some - can “converse” with it like the high end ones and get the same info anytime I want...
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posted on
11/07/2017 3:31:20 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: House Atreides
"Assuming, of course, that you make a desirable product of quality."It's not possible to "make a desirable product of quality" if all of your product design, development, and production resources must come from only a 17 percent markup, especially in a rapidly moving high tech industry.
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posted on
11/07/2017 3:42:34 AM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
To: proxy_user
How do they calculate the price to manufacture? Do they allocate all the research, development, and corporate overhead to each iPhone? If you dont charge your overhead back to your actual products that produce revenue, your accounting is not really accurate.The problem there is that on a per-unit basis, the R&D overhead drops as the number of units produced increases. If your R&D is $1M, and you produce 10 units, that's $100K each. If you produce a million units, that's a buck each. (hypothetical numbers, obviously).
So, yeah, it's tough to come up with a meaningful cost to produce for something like an iPhone, or any other complex product. And it's easy to fold some bias into those numbers, which may well be true in this case.
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posted on
11/07/2017 3:50:31 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: dennisw
Q. How do you shear sheep?
A. Make an iPhone for $358 and sell it for $999.
To: dennisw
That's a far smaller margin than the margins on a lot of what people buy everyday. Shampoo? It costs very little to make but women will pay exorbitant amounts of money to get their favorite brand.
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posted on
11/07/2017 5:30:56 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
To: dennisw
Much like the outrageous markup of contact lenses which take just a few cents to manufacture. Hubby’s PhD is in Optics and testified about this at some hearing very long ago.
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posted on
11/07/2017 5:44:59 AM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
To: Stosh
Exactly. Nobody is demanding people to pay too much for their gadgets. I’d rather have a flip phone and spend the remaining $800 on fabric for quilting. Priorities.
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posted on
11/07/2017 5:48:15 AM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
To: dennisw
It's a good thing they went to Asia to make these otherwise an i-phone would cost $85,300 if made in the USA. /sarcasm.
FUA
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posted on
11/07/2017 5:49:04 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: CodeToad
Which is part of the reason wages are stagnant. You have to control costs, and wages are one of the few places you can do it.
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posted on
11/07/2017 5:50:29 AM PST
by
redgolum
To: dennisw
FoxConn uses suicidal coolies to make our iphones. Seems to me Apple could reduce their marigin by a tiny bit and let Americans make them for us.
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posted on
11/07/2017 5:53:03 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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