Thread: Amazon Kindle fire real cost: 209.63
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Old 10-01-2011, 02:51 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by jocampo View Post
As per iSuppli, Kindle Fire manufacturing cost is about 209. If true, they are basically losing 10 dollars per device.
Those are ball park numbers but sounds credible. Here is the link:
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/09...m=tnw.to_1B5sq
They are losing much more than that you need to also include the cost of R&De in addition to the infrastructure to support it.
Also selling devices below cost --in order to keep a copeditor from competing is illegal, I wonder if anyone will sue; there has never been a suit.
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