On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/05/2013 01:34 PM, Rich Braun wrote: >> >> Sometime last year a major news organization (I think it was ABC) >> announced that the build cost of an iPhone is US$8 > > > That isn't plausible. Someone might have said it, but that doesn't make it > true.
I believe that was actually the labor charges to assemble the iPhone from parts/subassemblies. I'm pretty sure that I remember reading something like that at the time. A quick google search finds at least one estimate of $15 for cost to manufacture. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
