Reuters has just published a very interesting article which describes the production costs of the iPhone. ISuppli, a market research company, “calculates that each 8-gigabyte iPhone, which retails for $599, costs 265.83 to build, including hardware and manufacturing“..You have well understood, Apple will earn more than $300 per product !!!. In fact, that’s not 100% true because this cost doesn’t include Marketing, research and logistics costs…but it will remain anyway a lot of $ at the end ;-).
Knowing that “ISuppli analyst Tina Teng estimates 4.5 million iPhones will be shipped this year, rising to more than 30 million by 2011“, it means that the apple Gross Margin will be around $1.3 billion only for this year and $9 billion for 2011…even if it’s theory, that’s not too bad
Best regards
Lionel David, CrowdSpirit Founder
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