• 1984@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    They are made in the countries where people can’t afford to buy them too.

    Absolutely insane amount of profits for these things.

    Probably costs like 100 dollars per phone to make. Would be interesting to know.

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      10 months ago

      According to Nikkei it costs $501 to make an iPhone 14 Pro Max which is sold at $1099. It’s still very fat, but there’s no way something like this only costs $100 lol.

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      10 months ago

      i remember hearing a few years ago about it costing around $200 to make the latest and greatest galaxy note 10, and it had an msrp around the thousand dollar mark. phones have MASSIVE profit margins and honestly its probably just been getting bigger and bigger since then.

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        10 months ago

        I couldn’t find your $200 figure, all I found was that the note 8 costed $369 against a price of $950 and that the note 20 ultra costed $549 against an initial price of $1299.