Apple Iphone costs $265 to build

by admin July 4, 2007 at 5:27 pm

MARKET RESEARCH firm Isuppli has, like Semiconductor Insights before it, taken an 8GB Iphone to pieces and said the total bill of materials (BOM) and manufacturing cost is $265.83, delivering a margin of 55 per cent.

The thing sells at $1 less than $600 but the Isuppli calculation of Apple’s BOM doesn’t include royalties and logistics.

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