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Originally Posted by John F
But the phones already have BT, so there is no extra cost for the hardware? And are we sure that licensing is more? Doing a quick Google for BT licensing, it cost Apple $4000 for each model (although I would guess that there may be more licensing costs for some of the codecs.). Let's say they sell 500,000 of a model, so that comes out to $100,000 for the audio jack.
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It's the earphone part that costs more for BT. It's free basically as it's in all the WiFi chips used in phones. It's also poor compared to €10 headphones.