On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:29 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
It's not simply labor and materials. There's R&D, design, production, salaries, benefits, advertising, marketing, transportation, wholesale/retail, online/stores, support, feedback-- and profits. The real cost isn't just the physical phone, like the iPhone contract vs full retail price, http://bit.ly/pOkXz.
PC vendors don't do R&D. Intel provides them with designs and M$ provides the OS.
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