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Originally Posted by barryem
I have no idea what the manufacturing cost of an Iphone is but it's probably the development cost of any bleeding edge phone as well as support costs and marketing costs and manufacturing costs that makes the price so high...
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The organizations that analyze costs for business intelligence (such as IHS Markit) all seem to come up with around about 1/3 of the full retail price for parts cost alone for iPhones. Someone in a post suggested (dreamed?) $50
, the same sources quote a considerably higher price than that to Apple just for the iPhone X's screen alone.
Of course assembly, R&D, packaging, transport, marketing, etc. are on top. That said it is also claimed that Apple's margins are high compared to those of other phone manufacturers - I often wonder if that means that for phones of same retail price, the non Apple phone has higher quality components or just suffer higher component costs due to smaller volumes.