Thread: Google's Android is Eating Apple's Lunch
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Old 11-28-2012, 08:34 AM   #225
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
Apple charges $649 for a phone that costs $207 to manufacture, while Google doesn't charge for Android.
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Apple does not charge $649 for hardware. They charge $349 for the hardware, and $300 for iOS . Google, on the other hand, is willing to give me Android for free, but without hardware to run it on a handfull of source code is kind of useless.

So an unlocked Samsung G3 should cost $300 less than an unlocked iPhone 5, correct? After all, Samsung makes the majority of the components for both, and has no cost for OS development (since Google gives the OS for free out of the goodness of their hearts, and certainly not for ad revenue, data mining, Play store share and other monies they recieve on the backside of giving away an OS). Oh look! An unlocked iPhone 5 (Canada) is $649 and an unlocked SG3 is $599. ZOMG, that's only a $50 difference! Where's my other $250?!?!? Samsung is ripping me off!
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Seriously, you can't compare the sale price of hardware + OS vs manufacturing cost to the fact that an OS is initially free but makes money on use. They don't equate.
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