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Originally Posted by JoeD
Beyond just the part cost of the phone, there's shipping costs, storage costs, Apple store costs, staff costs, OS research costs, software development costs, patent licensing costs, legal fund pools, hardware and space for data centers and I bet there's a lot I've missed out...
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All of those factors affect ALL phone manufacturers, not just Apple. That should mean that a manufacturing profit comparison is reasonably fair since all the hidden cost are born just the same by all the competing companies. In fact, Apple has a somewhat unfair advantage in the factors before and after manufacturing because they a have a lot of clout in forcing their way on vendors, dealers and service providers.