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£699 iphone7, BUT how much does it cost to make? |
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£699 iphone7, BUT how much does it cost to make?
My friend reckons they can make them for £30 in their Chinese factory...
Which is probably why Apple make billions of dollars. |
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That's a lie. They cost at least £100+ to make
Here you go: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7329016.html |
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A quick Google shows they cost around £174 to make but that only allows for the actual manufacture of the phone. You then have distribution, design, R&D, admin, marketing, profit for Apple/profit for retailer as well of plenty of other costs to add on to get a true figure.
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A quick Google shows they cost around £174 to make but that only allows for the actual manufacture of the phone. You then have distribution, design, R&D, admin, marketing, profit for Apple/profit for retailer as well of plenty of other costs to add on to get a true figure.
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My friend reckons they can make them for £30 in their Chinese factory...
Which is probably why Apple make billions of dollars. |
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The problem is that no one knows the economy of scale discount that Apple gets. The raw parts for 1 woukd come much higher than what Apple actually pays to make it.
It will be cheap as the margins are massive. That is known, but then it's a company that makes most of its money from its brand name. |
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They are actually very cheap to make, hence the exorbitant profits companies like Apple make.
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I had a look at the iPhone 7 in an Apple store. I really dislike the new 'fake' vibratey home button. Feels much cheaper than the real button on the 6/6s.
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And the point of this thread is?
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My friend reckons they can make them for £30 in their Chinese factory...
Which is probably why Apple make billions of dollars. Good luck to 'em I say - if people will pay what they ask, and they rake in the profits, that's good business. |
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My friend reckons they can make them for £30 in their Chinese factory...
Which is probably why Apple make billions of dollars. |
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Don't other companies that make mobiles with just as good or better specs, but sell cheaper than Apple have those costs as well?
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I had a look at the iPhone 7 in an Apple store. I really dislike the new 'fake' vibratey home button. Feels much cheaper than the real button on the 6/6s.
The one thing that is annoying me is no headphone jack as my new car has an aux port but no Bluetooth so I can either listen to my music or charge the phone but not both and the apple supplied earpods are crap. |
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My friend reckons they can make them for £30 in their Chinese factory...
Which is probably why Apple make billions of dollars. |
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The one thing that is annoying me is no headphone jack as my new car has an aux port but no Bluetooth so I can either listen to my music or charge the phone but not both and the apple supplied earpods are crap.
It's unnecessarily confusing....anyhow, I drive a Mini and there's no support at all for anything other than (older) iPhones, so as I have an android phone, I have to copy my music to a usb stick for long journeys ![]() How long does your iPhone 7 battery last, and how fast does it recharge anyhow? |
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The one thing that is annoying me is no headphone jack as my new car has an aux port but no Bluetooth so I can either listen to my music or charge the phone but not both and the apple supplied earpods are crap.
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You have a headphone adaptor in the box; just use a 3.5mm jack cable!
You need to buy a third-party accessory if you want to charge the device and use the headphone jack at the same time. |
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The point being made was that with what's in the box you have to chose between charging and using a headphone jack.
You need to buy a third-party accessory if you want to charge the device and use the headphone jack at the same time. Same old bullshit. |
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£174? For manufacturing and not including IoS?
Lol. £60 tops. |
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£174? For manufacturing and not including IoS?
Lol. £60 tops. |
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Tell your friend he's a bit of an idiot for not knowing how to use google...
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They are apparently the most profitable phone on the planet. I posted some figures on this only the other week in the Pixel thread. Apple makes around £184 clear profit on each phone whereas Samsung makes around £36.
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And the 3rd party accessory costs... £10? And of course you always need to charge and listen?
Same old bullshit. Is there an adaptor that allows charging and using the headphone jack simultaneously? |
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Is there an adaptor that allows charging and using the headphone jack simultaneously?
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No doubt all those iPhone7 purchasers will be delighted to know that they are helping to maintain Apple's record of 104% of the entire industry's profit on smart phones (the rest combined make a loss).
http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/apple-smartphone-profits/ |
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