Every time Apple launches a new iPhone on the market, it is torn apart and all of its components to view individual cost from each of them. This allows us to obtain an approximate idea of the cost of all the components of that iPhone model, a value that is nothing like the real one since design, development, research, marketing, distribution processes and a thousand other things are not taken into account. . Still, we all know that Apple's profit margin is high, there is no doubt about that judging from its financial results.
In the case of the iPhone 5s, the total cost of all its components is around $ 191 for the 16GB model while, 210 dollars if the capacity increases to 64GB. Here is one of the culprits of the great benefit of Apple and that is that while it costs them 19 dollars to increase the capacity, they charge us an additional 200 euros and here there is no cheat or cardboard.
The report provides the cost of some components of the iPhone 5s:
- Screen: $ 41
- Apple A7 processor: $ 19
- Fingerprint reader: $ 7
In the case of the iPhone 5c, the cost of all its components ranges between 173 dollars and $ 183 for the larger capacity model. The Apple A6 processor costs $ 13 and assembling the entire terminal only costs $ 7.
As a curiosity it is not bad but obviously, nobody can affirm that if it costs Apple 191 dollars to make an iPhone 5s then they earn 458 dollars because it is not real, you have to take into account a lot of additional costs that are not included in the study.
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Indeed, they do not earn all that amount, far from it
You will probably have to add twice what the components cost them for manufacturing, marketing, engineering expenses ... but it must also be said that within 5 months the costs of the parts will be lower and those other expenses will have been amortized ... so who will earn more and yet the terminal will not drop in price ...
Not forgetting that Foxconn assembles the equipment and pays the employees a million, that's why not all the dollars get to Apple
And what you do not say is that those prices are what that piece would have bought separately and not in 10 million units for example.
Piece of SCAM ... especially the iphone 5c ... okay, here the cost of everything does not appear ... but put you that it costs 220-250 (up to a lot) it cost them a lot to put the Iphone 5c at ... 350 euros for example?
Also, let us remember that not only are you going to win with that, you are going to win with the applications that you download if they are paid ... with payment of a service, etc. I don't know, but I see it as a full-blown scam.
At the end of the day, yes, Apple owns its products and sets the price it wants and if you don't like it, don't buy it, but I think it passes 4 peoples in terms of profit with other companies and people are so silly that it makes him like it.
If Apple were to charge to jump off a cliff, there were sure people who did it, to go to the grave with an Apple service.
Humans are very stupid sometimes. XD
I don't know what is the cost of the components of an S4 or an HTC one, or a high-end Xperia, but in my country all these options are always at the price of an iPhone, I assure you that the cost of these equipment is the same or smaller than that of an iPhone, so it is not only Apple that would scam, it would be all those companies.
I do not see it as a scam, so are the prices in the market.
Well in part you are right, the truth ...
Even so, the price seems unfair to me and as you say about other terminals, but Apple could afford to get a cheaper terminal and cover much more market, but hey they will know about marketing, sales, etc. although I still think that it would be beneficial to them if the iPhone was crazy and that almost everyone had it.
Putting a figure for the actual cost per unit is impossible. But you are ignorant, putting the remainder of expenses at $ 30, - / $ 40 (and even worse, believing that "Up to a lot is")
Only some of the expenses that a company like Apple has, and only of employees that will be several thousand thousand, have millions of expenses per month. There is something called R&D, you see that the screen and the camera and the processor improve every year. This research has a very high cost. Transportation, taxes, advertising, and tons of expenses that we do not take into account. It is something that could be investigated with great patience, since they provide a lot of data on both sales and profits per year. But nothing scam, neither Apple nor Samsung nor any. They know the prices that serve them, they set them and we pay them or not. It is a choice. But if it makes you sleep better, rest assured that your pure profit is not $ 500 per terminal.
Let's see, obviously I already know that these conditions exist behind the creation of a smartphone, but so ignorant that I am and so intelligent and wise that YOU are, can you tell me that figure? DO NOT. Thanks! By the way, very ugly to go out to disqualify the first exchange. 🙂
Also, I have to add that if we put ourselves in that plan of adding all the costs of EVERYTHING Apple does, we are going to compare it to a real life situation:
I go to the supermarket…: O !! An apple costs 3 euros? but why? It is that I have to pay the transport service, the rent of the premises, the water, the electricity, the employees and all the material and repairs ...
Let's see ... if you want to start a business you will have to make investments and maintain certain expenses, do not expect others to pay you all your expenses, because or if not, nothing would be cheap in this life! It is clear that if you sell a product, to be profitable it will have to give you more profit than you spend on the business, but up to a limit.
Anyway, so much history for nothing ... the iPhone 5c is expensive as hell whether you like it or not and san it's over the fuck!
hahahaha, no mames, do you think that is the real value of an apple ??, I don't know how much the apples are sold there, but for example, the farmer who is in charge of cutting the apples sells them at a price, the picker buys them at that price and increases the price to have a profit, when arriving in the city he arrives with the distributor and that distributor buys them and increases the value to have his profit, that distributor arrives at the super market and offers them, the super market buys them at the distributor's price and increases the price for him also to have his profit, and so people go and buy an apple at the super market at a higher price than if they were to buy it directly from a farmer.
Of course it is not the value of an apple, it is an EXAMPLE :). I know that there are intermediaries, but as they say around here, some of the prices include even the assembly, that is, they would only have to pay for the transport, but hey again we would return to the same as technicians, engineers, computer scientists, etc. that Apple has to pay .
Then explain to me how a Smartphone costs the same or more than many more powerful and larger laptops?
Friend I agree with Carlos, such a simple example is the video consoles, let's talk only about xbox 360 and PS3, these consoles when they arrive on the market and their predecessors arrive in red numbers, losing money, they do not earn money for each console sold and so it is. that PS3 just started making money 2 or 3 years ago for each one sold. You will say it is not the same market but if concept they spend on advertising R&D etc even ma.
Therefore Apple if it goes over with its High prices (he can do what he wants is his business) but seeing it from the consumer side his profit margin for each unit sold is very high the terminal with all the expenses as Carlos says does not pass the 280 dollars and they sell it at 599 or 499, according to the figures it sold 9 million iPhones.
Returning to the issue of consoles they have a balance point to a certain number of consoles sold X for example 5 million they start to earn money and the balance is changed to profit.
That's why people who buy it say it believing that it is the best thing in the world and the reality is that this technology already existed but Apple washes their brains with its advertising marketing etc and they believe it.
Anyway, everyone does what they want with their money, but that's where companies do what they want with us because we let ourselves and believe in consumerism. A simple cell phone fulfills its basic functions, which is to send messages and call.
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I think they have already said it here, but it is worth repeating it: the parts are cheap because Apple orders them by the millions. Thanks to these productions, the manufacturing costs go down so much that the manufacturer can offer those almost ridiculous prices.
It is almost the same as the collective purchases that are so fashionable: one unit will be expensive, 300 units will be cheaper, millions of units not to mention.
We must also add as they have also very well said the human cost, the assembly, the distribution, the storage, the permits and tariffs, the advertising ... and it is that in the end to say that the A7 is worth 13 dollars is like saying that a tire of a Ferrari costs 90 euros. And everything else, what? (Yes, including the extra cost of the brand for being a brand, everything has to be said).
As you mention it and people do not think about it, it is the cost of IOS 7, it is transporting merchandise, advertising, training stores, exclusive apple services, not only are the parts, but you make with them, and also of course the number of parts apple buys.
http://albertocarlier.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/el-valor-real-de-las-cosas/