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Originally Posted by Dave_S
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.
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One would expect Apple to have higher marginal costs than makers of Android phones, though, because Android phone makers don't have to pay for the development of the o/s, do they? (Apologies if I'm wrong - I don't know how Android licensing works)