Many controversies continually hover over the cost of manufacturing the company's devices. Cupertino and the price at which it ends up selling them later. Usually this happens because we tend (wrongly) to compare a Mac with a computer assembled to parts on our own, or we even compare a iPhone with a generic Android device.
However, we cannot deny that Apple has a bad habit of making iPhones more expensive year after year. According to an analysis, making the iPhone 12 costs about 20% more than the iPhone 11 cost at the time.
At least if we refer to the version of the United States of America, since the version for sale in Europe does not have the same characteristics at the connectivity level. This is what they comment on in the middle Counterpoint.
Making the iPhone 12 with 128GB of storage with a mmWave antenna costs Apple about $ 431, which is a 26% increase over the material cost of the iPhone 11, the immediately previous version. However, the product cost difference is around $ 27 for devices that do not have mmWave antennas, In other words, the iPhone 12 Pro that I have in my hands right now has cost Apple at least $ 27 less despite the fact that the retail price is clearly higher than the model sold in the United States of America.
Based on this aforementioned analysis, the elements that make the product more expensive are clearly those related to 5G technology and the new OLED screen that they finally assemble all the company's devices and that represent an important qualitative leap in capacities and especially in battery consumption. In the meantime, we can only keep thinking about Christmas shopping.