Friday, January 19th 2007
Apple iPhone 'only' costs $246-$281 to manufacture
While Apple is expected to charge around $500 for their revolutionary new iPhone, independent firm iSupply did some investigating into how much this thing is really worth. The 4GB model "only" costs $229.85 in terms of raw hardware costs, though after OS X is installed, configured, and licensed, the device cost is estimated at $245.83. The MSRP of the 4GB model is $500. The $600 8GB iPhone costs $280.83 to produce. If these figures are close to what Apple is really paying, once the iPhone begins shipping (and once it gets an FCC ID, if it hasn't already done so), it will earn Apple a lofty sum of money for each sale. And if the iPhone doesn't catch on due to an obscenely high price, Apple will have plenty of room for price cuts. The phones will be carried by Cingular later this year.
Source:
The Register
13 Comments on Apple iPhone 'only' costs $246-$281 to manufacture
-Dan
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www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/12/cisco_apple_iphone_trademark_spat/
-Dan
"Mac" is just a PC using an OS that looks just like Windows, but since people see that, has no games.
I own the PC in my System Specs, running XP, Vista, and Kubuntu Linux. I also own a 1GHz G4 iMac, a 1.6GHz G5 PowerMac, and a 2.33GHz 20" Core2 iMac, all running OS X.4 and XP on the intel mac. I got the G4 for $20 in a Chinese Auction at work, got the G5 for free because the original owner thought it was broken(dead hard drive), and paid full price for the Intel Mac because I liked the other 2 so much.
Same as an Xbox360 can put out sexy graphics while "only" having mediocre hardware. Optimizations, tweaks, etc bring the most out of it, because you KNOW what you're putting it on. None of this making it work with the lowest, through the highest quality components and such.