businessweek.com— An analysis from teardown firm Portelligent estimates that the new must-have smartphone costs Apple a mere $220 to make
Jul 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
I suppose the games do make some back, but only ~$10 a game? The rest has to be going to the game development. I mean a PC game costs the same, and they aren't trying to make up for hardware costs there.I thought the Wii would have been with that R600 gpu in there and the console is only like ~$200.
The fact that people are willing to pay nearly 4x premium on goods is a testament to Apple. Ever do consulting work? The actual grunt doing the work is usually billed over for easily 3x-4x the amount he's actually paid by the company. Except this is in services. For Apple to do this with hardware is impressive (in a business-sense).
why do you think prices go down over time? In the beginning prices are high so they get all the fanboys who would pay anything for it... after the demand slows down they lower the price to get the consumers that would buy it at that lower price.. it's simple economics
I meant to include other products. I've got friends who work in companies that manufacture cables, and electronic accessories, and their markup is about 4x, which is common. Go grab one of those $60 FM transmitters for your iPod, and tell me that it costs $25 in parts. I doubt it costs more than $10.
sirmasterboyJul 2, 2007
I suppose the games do make some back, but only ~$10 a game? The rest has to be going to the game development. I mean a PC game costs the same, and they aren't trying to make up for hardware costs there.I thought the Wii would have been with that R600 gpu in there and the console is only like ~$200.
Closed AccountJul 3, 2007
Apple Fanboy! I bet his the one who bury articles about the downside about the iPhone.
mav451Jul 3, 2007
The fact that people are willing to pay nearly 4x premium on goods is a testament to Apple. Ever do consulting work? The actual grunt doing the work is usually billed over for easily 3x-4x the amount he's actually paid by the company. Except this is in services. For Apple to do this with hardware is impressive (in a business-sense).
jrr6415sunJul 3, 2007
why do you think prices go down over time? In the beginning prices are high so they get all the fanboys who would pay anything for it... after the demand slows down they lower the price to get the consumers that would buy it at that lower price.. it's simple economics
yorgleJul 3, 2007
I meant to include other products. I've got friends who work in companies that manufacture cables, and electronic accessories, and their markup is about 4x, which is common. Go grab one of those $60 FM transmitters for your iPod, and tell me that it costs $25 in parts. I doubt it costs more than $10.
yabosJul 4, 2007
Most cars cost about half of what they charge people for them. Heaven forbid a company makes a profit these days.