Here we like a chestnut in iSmooth Blog : estimating the cost of producing the latest Apple iPhone. Today, it is society that Asymco Get exposed after qu'iFixit or iSupply have gone there of their predictions. The work of Asymco for manufacturing and non-price components, which comes out a little routine.
If on average, the components of a $ 200 iPhone back to Apple, the cost of labor is about to him, much lower ... Horace Dediu, an analyst at Asymco, used the information revealed by the ABC report on Foxconn. Knowing that it takes to manufacture a full iPhone 4S, 24 hours of work (including 6 to 8 hours for software testing and operation of the apparatus) and given that a worker is paid $ 1.78 Foxconn time, while making itself an iPhone amounts to $ 30.
Thus, the production cost of an iPhone represents about 5% of the selling price of the machine, which must be added, the component prices (around $ 200 then), customs fees, applicable taxes, insurance (...) and of course research and development upstream.
Given these figures, Apple seems to realize around 55% margin on iPhone (Apple wind knowing that the $ 650 device and the machine cost him 293 dollars).
Apple really knows no crisis ...
If on average, the components of a $ 200 iPhone back to Apple, the cost of labor is about to him, much lower ... Horace Dediu, an analyst at Asymco, used the information revealed by the ABC report on Foxconn. Knowing that it takes to manufacture a full iPhone 4S, 24 hours of work (including 6 to 8 hours for software testing and operation of the apparatus) and given that a worker is paid $ 1.78 Foxconn time, while making itself an iPhone amounts to $ 30.
Thus, the production cost of an iPhone represents about 5% of the selling price of the machine, which must be added, the component prices (around $ 200 then), customs fees, applicable taxes, insurance (...) and of course research and development upstream.
Given these figures, Apple seems to realize around 55% margin on iPhone (Apple wind knowing that the $ 650 device and the machine cost him 293 dollars).
Apple really knows no crisis ...
