Thread: What will e-readers be like 10 years from now?
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Old 01-12-2018, 01:35 AM   #106
Richwood
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Hubby’s Samsung tablet has $150 screen. We discovered that when we took it to be repaired. No we didn't replace it.
Spare parts retail price. MUCH higher than manufacturing cost, direct parts and labor which was what I was guesstimating for the iphone. I would be surprised if the direct parts and labor cost for the latest Iphone is much over $100 to $150 absolute maximum in the quantities Apple makes them. Assembled from spare parts a car would cost 5X to 10X the retail price for the whole car.

I worked in electronics manufacturing for a division of Xerox in silicon valley and the direct parts and labor cost for the daisywheel printers we made was about 10% of the single unit retail price they listed for. This did not include all the overhead costs from engineering, R&D, Tech support, factory operating costs, marketing, taxes etc, plus making a profit.
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