{"id":92,"date":"2007-01-18T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2007\/01\/18\/cost-components-of-apples-iphone\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T20:10:25","slug":"cost-components-of-apples-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2007\/01\/18\/cost-components-of-apples-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple cost breakout of Apple&#8217;s iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this article on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Price+cuts+on+Apple+iPhone+likely%2C+analysis+finds\/2100-1041_3-6151185.html?tag=mainstry\">news.com<\/a>\u00a0about the margin and cost breakout of the iPhone by Apple.\u00a0 In summary, it states that based on the 4GB iPhone (priced at $499), the component costs are approximately $229.85 (46% of price), with assembly cost at about $15.90, raising the total manufacturing price at $245.83, giving it approximately a 50% margin.<\/p>\n<p>With 8GB iPhone (priced at $599), component costs are $264.85 (44% of price), with assembly costs of $15.98, giving it a total manufacturing price of $280.83, with approximately 53% margin.\u00a0 According to iSupply, the WiFi chip would be about $15.35, with the 8GB flash memory at about $70 (at current costs).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Certainly the price of the phone will come down\u00a0sometime after it is\u00a0released on the US market in the summer of 2007, with most high end phones getting a 20% gross margin &#8211; pricing the 8GB iPhone at about $350.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this article on news.com\u00a0about the margin and cost breakout of the iPhone by Apple.\u00a0 In summary, it states that based on the 4GB iPhone (priced at $499), the component costs are approximately $229.85 (46% of price), with assembly cost at about $15.90, raising the total manufacturing price at $245.83, giving it approximately a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,921],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}