unscrbieUnsubscribe my email address On 9/26/18, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > The $1249 iPhone XS Max is made out of only $443 worth of parts > By Reuters > . Apple's new iPhone XS Max has about $443 worth of parts, according > to a new analysis. > . The device that was torn down was the 256GB model, which retails for > $1249. > . Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously said he's never seen a teardown > estimate that's "even close to accurate." > . Still, it's clear Apple likes to make a healthy margin on its > iPhones. > Apple shaved some parts from the display in its largest new iPhone, helping > keep costs under control in what has become the priciest component of its > phones in recent years, according to a new cost analysis of the device. > TechInsights, an Ottawa, Ontario-based firm which rips open phones to > analyze their contents and estimate the cost of the parts inside, said on > Tuesday that the iPhone Xs Max with 256 gigabytes of storage capacity > contains about $443 in parts and assembly costs, compared with $395.44 for > the 64-gigabyte version of last year's iPhone X. > Apple released a trio of new phones earlier this month, including an update > on last year's iPhone X, called the iPhone Xs, that starts at $999, and the > budget-minded iPhone Xr that starts at $749. But it was the iPhone Xs Max - > with a 6.5-inch display that uses so-called OLED technology for richer > colors - that pushed new pricing boundaries, starting at $1,099. > In its cost analysis released on Tuesday, TechInsights found that the > single > priciest part in the iPhone Xs Max - the display - cost $80.50, compared > with $77.27 for last year's iPhone X, which featured a smaller 5.8-inch > screen. The relatively small increase in cost despite the larger screen > size > was because Apple appeared to have removed some components related to its > so-called 3D Touch system, which makes apps respond differently depending > on > how hard users press the screen. > "All told, what they took out adds up to about $10, so this $80 estimate > would have been about $90," Al Cowsky, who oversees cost analysis at > TechInsights, told Reuters in an interview. "They had a trade-off in cost." > > An Apple spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment about the > study. > But Bob O'Donnell of TECHnalysis Research said Apple likely made the right > decision to focus on ensuring it could deliver a larger-screened model this > year economically. > "For a certain group of people, the whole thing is about the screen. It's > driving the whole experience and it's what is making people excited about > using the phone," O'Donnell said. > Other costs that increased were the phone's processor and modem chips, > primarily because the chips used newer chip-making techniques from Intel > and > Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd to boost their performance while > taking up the same space. The 256-gigabyte iPhone Xs Max TechInsights > analyzed sells for $1,249 in the United States. > > Original Article at: > https://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-xs-max-teardown-and-parts-cost-estima > te-2018-9 > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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