Apple could spend between $ 200 and $ 247 to manufacture each unit of the iPhone 6 or between $ 216 and $ 263 in the case of the iPhone 6 Plus, as revealed by a study that has analyzed the components of the new Apple phones to find out, roughly, the global cost of manufacturing the terminal.
It should be clarified that these manufacturing costs associated with the iPhone 6 They have a trap and it is that in the manufacture of a product not only its components intervene and that's it, you have to pay some suppliers, labor, research costs, distribution and a long chain of third parties involved that is not reflected in this study .
If we focus on the strict cost of the components, we see that it costs Apple only $ 47 to go from 16 GB of storage to 128 GB, achieving that profit margin is increased by 1% if we buy the model with the highest capacity compared to the one with the smallest internal memory. In short, the strategy of eliminating the 32 GB version and leaving the 16 GB option serves to force us to buy, at least, the 64 GB edition that brings them more benefits at an economic level. This is a maneuver that we already realized at the time but now we know concrete figures.
Considering that the iPhone 6 is sold in the United States for prices ranging from $ 649 to $ 849, the final profit margin is around 69%. In the case of the iPhone 6 Plus, the profit margin that Apple manages increases to 70% but that if, we repeat that these values do not take into account the other long list of expenses that are handled when developing a product such as the Iphone.
Still, the huge orders that Apple is working with will surely allow it to lower component prices even further in order to earn more money for each unit iPhone 6 sold. Apple has very large profit margins, we already knew that after seeing that quarter after quarter, its financial results are higher than those of the previous period.
