Ondrej Holzman Predictions that the iPhone 5s will be much more expensive to make than the iPhone 5c have turned out to be false. The disassembly of the two new Apple phones showed that the difference in the price for the production of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c can be only about 500 crowns.
Traditionally, IHS came up with the production price of new Apple products, which provided the results to the server ahead of time AllThingsD.
The biggest difference between the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c is undoubtedly the A7 processor, the fingerprint sensor and the improved camera. These things the plastic iPhone 5c lacks, but still its production price is not significantly lower, as might be expected.
Apple will pay at least $16 (5 crowns) for components for the 191GB iPhone 3s, while the price will rise to $700 (64 crowns) for the 210GB version. If we add $4 for assembly, the production price of the iPhone 000s ranges from $8 to $5 (199 to 218 crowns).
For comparison, last year's iPhone 5 cost about $205 according to IHS data, so no big difference. The non-subsidized prices of the iPhone 5s range between 649 and 849 dollars, which means that in such a case Apple will get roughly seven to twelve thousand crowns on the new phone.
The most expensive component of the iPhone 5s is, similarly to the previous models, the display, which costs a total of 41 dollars. According to IHS, Apple sources displays from Sharp, Japan Display Inc. and LG Display.
IHS calculated the components for the iPhone 5c at $173 to $183, including $3 for assembly. For the plastic version, we get 300 to 3 crowns for production, while non-subsidized prices range from 500 to 10 crowns.
The production price of the new iPhones does not differ much. “I'd say they're pretty much the same phones, except the 5s has a fingerprint sensor, an A7 processor, and some newer memory chips that use less power. Other than that, however, they are practically the same,” said Andrew Rassweiler, an analyst at IHS.
According to Rassweiler, Apple is also paying a lot of attention to the signal receiving chips. "Where other companies would use the various chips available, Apple pushes suppliers to do for it what no one else can do," Rassweiler said. While the iPhone 5 only supported 5 LTE bands, the iPhone 5s and 5c can already work on up to thirteen without having to change to a different version of the device. Maybe one day Apple will be able to release a single phone that will support all the world's frequencies.
Interestingly. I also expected a noticeable difference in the prices of the package
According to what Apple itself showed from the production of the iP5C - I would not be surprised if the production was really just as expensive. Everything is milled/drilled into an AL/plastic casting - so there is zero difference here, although plastic is cheaper than Al, but it is quite difficult to polish and paint it - which will probably be more expensive than aluminum treatment...
if there is a difference - it's certainly not as dramatic as many people think.
Well, if they did such a "survey" for how much they will make, be it noName or samsung and the like, android founy... that might be even more interesting ;)
I would say that the sapphire slide on the fingerprint sensor will be quite expensive...
nj it will raise the price of the iphone by at least 50 cents a piece!
But consider how much it does when it comes to iPhone production. Better than you for life...
Then why didn't they put at least the processor from the 5S in the plastic, but put a last year's old processor? If they can't produce 5S in sufficient quantities, it would be worth buying a $100 cheaper plastic with the same hardware.
I was most amused by the difference between the 16GB and 64GB versions. $19. And they charge $200. :)))
I would like to see how much it costs to make a samsung galaxy s4 or note 3, why does the author of the article compare only the iPhone, it is clear that you can make an iPhone for such a price, but what about Samsungs, do you make them out of gold? Also, the production costs shit and they sell it for 15.000, so how much will Samsung pay for its plastic miracle, I would also be interested, and only me, I am asking the author to publish the information about Samsung's production about Apple, we have all heard it already
On the website mentioned as the source of this article, you will certainly find information on how much it costs to manufacture Samsung and others.
Calculating only the price of HW seems quite misleading to me. After all, the price must include a little more than just parts and assembly. While for the 5S they had to create completely new components and invest in development, testing, etc. In the 5C, they basically only created a new cover and the rest of the development was already paid for by the sale of the iPhone 5.
The price jump between the 16GB and 64GB variants is due to the effort to differentiate the products in the product line. If there was a $19 difference in the store, i.e. about CZK 400, they wouldn't have to bother with the production of different variants. This is how they get extra money for "superior equipment".
The author's fantastic deduction that Apple has "seven to twelve thousand" on one phone. It's like traders sell with zero margin and work like that just to feel good? Although I do not know the agreements with traders, I would expect about 30% for them. And there are more of those necessary expenses, even the engineers at Apple don't work to feel good, etc.
The phone will cost as much as a person spends on it, if it wasn't bought for 18k, it would have gone down;) whatever, but people can only talk and then take it on installments anyway, so it will be even more expensive, people are stupid.