Every time Apple especially launches a new device on the market, many are the experts who begin to gut each of the components that are part of it to try to price it and find out jointly what is the cost of manufacturing the terminal . These figures always tend to offer total costs much lower than the sale price terminal. It must be taken into account that one thing with the costs of each component and another is the money invested in R&D, in assembling all the components, in transport, advertising, taxes ... which have to be passed on to the price of each terminal.
According to the IHS company, the production cost of the new iPhone model is $ 220,80, orA higher price than the previous year's model, whose component cost was $ 36 lower. This means that if the United States is selling for $ 649, local taxes aside, the company is getting almost twice what the terminal is costing it. But as I have commented above, in these manufacturing expenses the R&D, shipping, manufacturing costs have not been considered ...
7GB iPhone 32 Manufacturing Cost
The difference in price can be found in the new components that Apple has used for the manufacture of this new model, such as the new taptic engine, the new camera, the new brighter screen, the elimination of the jack, in addition to the new storage spaces where 16 GB of storage have gone down in history and the basic model is at 32 GB.
Every time the company closes a fiscal year, it announces the profit margin obtained after the sale of all its services. This percentage it is always between 20 and 22%, like all technology companies. Let no one think that from $ 220 to $ 649 it reaches the market with all benefits.