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Originally Posted by Richwood
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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$370 for iPhone X parts according to sources who track that sort of thing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...one-8-ihs-says
But the iPhone cost is irrelevant when talking about ereaders. MSRP on phones that function perfectly well as readers and phones are in the $200 to $250 range. And sell for less than that when on sale or subsided by carriers. They lack the iPhone cameras and face recognition and super CPU s. Many here will argue my calling them suited for reading and I concede the point on outdoor visibility. But I don't normally read outside, so I don't care. They do have what I care about, 300 dpi 5.5 to 6 inch screens, beautiful, even, adjustable lighting for indoor reading. Smooth scrolling for quickly finding a book in my 600 book library. Fast response for page turns and Kindle's page flip. 8 hour screen on battery life.
Compare how LCD and e-ink have progressed over the last 10 years. The first Kindle was about 10 years ago, the first iPhone appeared almost 11 years ago. The development momentum is on the side of LCD/phone/tablet.
If the tablets have already killed large format readers, as at least one person said up-thread, I think the same will happen with small format readers in the next 10 years.