finance.yahoo.com — Market research company iSuppli takes it upon itself to tear down popular gadgets to find out the price of the component parts and the vendors supplying those ingredients. A rundown of several recent iSuppli teardowns follows...
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g0atm0nsterJul 5, 2009
Well a lot of the IC's on Apple products are proprietary. I can speak from experience on that count; many of the chips can't even be ordered from their distributors because of private contracts, so I'd like to know how they even managed to get a price quotation for those. This article is really kind of silly.
Closed AccountJul 6, 2009
You can't expect diggers to take college classes. The great majority are probably still in junior high.
linageeJul 7, 2009
@g0atm0nster: Are you saying a fab plant does a custom run just for the microprocessor chip that goes into an ipod? I highly highly doubt that. More likely they are using an ARM or something, and apple and the distributor will never admit it. They will go to huge lengths to never admit it by changing the model numbers to something nobody's ever heard of, even.
garvin122Jul 7, 2009
great terminology
altidudeJul 9, 2009
I'd buy a kindle without a second thought at $149.99. At $200, maybe I'm a buyer but I would think long and hard about it.
jamesdewJul 10, 2009
really? They should have mentioned that in the article.(for the I don't get sarcasm brigade)fta:"Microsoft was willing to take a loss on the second generation of its video game console. The aim: recoup the losses on sales of games over the long haul."
deathjuxJul 10, 2009
Are you sure about that? What about testing the prototypes? It'd suck to have to put your dong into something only to discover they screwed it up and it felt like sandpaper, or clamped down like a bear trap, or gave you AIDS. These are real work hazards.
sirdarksoulJul 19, 2009
Who cares if sony never makes a profit again. sony can diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeee!...........from a former swg player....srsly
thebuttaFeb 15, 2010
Are you saying the phone should be cheaper now?