David Hanak This year, IHS Research has once again started estimating the costs that Apple must pay for the production of one iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus. These analyzes appear every year when Apple introduces something new. They can give interested parties a rough idea of how much a phone costs to make. This year's iPhones are slightly more expensive than last year's. This is partly due to the increase in production costs, which is certainly not negligible compared to last year's model. However, the amount that IHS Research came up with is made up only of the prices for the individual components. It does not include production itself, R&D, marketing and others.
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Patrik Siwek Last year's iPhone 7, or its basic configuration with 32GB of memory, had production costs (for hardware) of around $238. According to data from IHS Research, the cost of manufacturing this year's base model (i.e. iPhone 8 64GB) is less than $248. The retail price of this model is $699 (US market), which is roughly 35% of the selling price.
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The iPhone 8 Plus is logically more expensive, as it includes a larger display, more memory and a dual camera, instead of the classic solution with one sensor. The 64GB version of this model costs about $288 in hardware to make, which is less than $18 more per unit than last year. Just for fun, the dual camera module alone costs $32,50. The new A11 Bionic processor is $5 more expensive than its predecessor, the A10 Fusion.
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Dan Pražák The IHS Research company stands behind its data, although Tim Cook was very negative about similar analyses, who himself stated that he had not yet seen any hardware price analysis that even came close to what Apple pays for these components. However, the effort to calculate the production costs of new iPhones belongs to the annual color that is associated with the release of new products. So it would be a shame not to share this information.
Source: Appleinsider
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The question is how much of the remaining money actually goes to R&D and how much is profit. Lately, given the quality of the software, I don't hold out too much hope that the developers actually get paid :-/
The margin is around 40%. That's the official figure.
the cost of iphones is pretty easy to find out from how many are sold and what profit apple declares for what period. it won't be exact for the model, but the percentages will be similar to the model. and when cook says that no one's estimate has been accurate or close to reality, I feel that the reality will be that it is even cheaper in terms of costs (that's the difference between buying 1 piece and 1 million pieces :)
the gentleman is an economist :-) And how do you find out what percentage or amount of profit is contributed by that particular type of product (iphone, ipad, macbook, imacy, etc.) - maybe the shareholders have that information, but most importantly, what are the costs of that profit further affect (marketing, development, depreciation of investments, etc.)
The massacre is that, according to foreign sources, iPhone X components will cost $570. A solid difference. The display alone is $160 more expensive.