[Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> 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