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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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. |
Hubby’s Samsung tablet has $150 screen. We discovered that when we took it to be repaired. No we didn't replace it.