Apple has sold 10 million of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in its first weekend marketing. A $ 699 unit, the business is succulent. Especially given how much it costs to manufacture a iPhone 6 and therefore profit margin for Apple.
The apple company sells the 16GB iPhone 6 in the United States for $ 699, A 207.9% more expensive than they cost parts . The cost of manufacturing a iPhone 6 16 GB is $ 227, but Apple sold more than threefold.
According to research on the cost of parts for new devices released today by Teardown, touch screen is the largest part of the cost of manufacturing smartphones from Apple: 51 dollars in the case of the iPhone 6 Plus and $ 41.50 in the iPhone 6
are also expensive A8 processor ($ 37) and internal components (receiver antenna , amplifier, barometric sensor, controller NFC …), leaving a total of $ 27.50. Non-electronic components such as housings, representing $ 18.
Cheapest leave the 8 megapixel camera ($ 17.50) , connectivity ($ 13), NAND ($ 9), speakers ($ 7) The battery ($ 6) or SDRAM memory ($ 5).
If you add other costs not specified (34,50), support materials ($ 6) and the cost of assembly and test ($ 11), leaves us with a total manufacturing cost of $ 242.50 for the large model . This figure is slightly reduced, to $ 227 in the case of the iPhone 6 .
According to the website Kelisto, the differences between the manufacturing cost and the selling price public will be even higher in Spain . In our country it will sell for 699 euros. If we consider the equivalence of those $ 227 euros, 176.7 euros, and we see that the unit price rises to almost four times its manufacturing cost by 295%.
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