I guess that's excluded the costs of innovation & research etc. etc...
Coca-Cola is just sugar, flavoring and water.
It costs about 5 cents in materials to make a 2-liter. They sell it for between $1 and $2.
That's a 1,000-2,000% markup. Where are the articles on this?
Surprised to see how much an LTE chip costs for Apple.
Oh yeah exactly, just like they are still charging for OS X and iWork, even for customers that have the previous versions of these. They never show any goodwill and give anything for free for customer appreciation.
Go a bake a cake. Take a look at how much the material costs and then the time you put into it from the idea to the cake done. Now, try to sale cakes and create a web site and an strategy.
Yes, they are making a profit but it is not beyond 3% to 5% per unit at the most! Actually it may be even 1.5%
Profit is good. I'm willing to pay for these awesome devices to ensure they continue improving.
Right. Engineering, including continuing development of iOS, is free.What innovation and research. It's the same device since the first iPad. Only thing change is it's speed, and the CPU costs seem to stay the same every year.
I guess that's excluded the costs of innovation & research etc. etc...
Then they should reduce the price by 13%.
In the end they would still earn more anyways!
Time for apple to show some good-will after everything they have put us through the last 24 months.
Then they should reduce the price by 13%.
In the end they would still earn more anyways!
Time for apple to show some good-will after everything they have put us through the last 24 months.
45% margin. Impressive.
45% margin. Impressive.
Then they should reduce the price by 13%.
In the end they would still earn more anyways!
Time for apple to show some good-will after everything they have put us through the last 24 months.
Then they should reduce the price by 13%.
In the end they would still earn more anyways!
Time for apple to show some good-will after everything they have put us through the last 24 months.
Apple could have doubled the space and still kept higher margins than last time.
16gb for $500 is ridiculous for 2013.
Right. Engineering, including continuing development of iOS, is free.
OS X has nothing to do with iPad. Two different things.
It is NOT ridiculous for Apple as far as people keeps buying it by the milions. Actually it's genius they can get away with it.
Considering that it has the same exact specs as the iPad Air, and yet is a miniaturized version—yes, yes I am. How often do you see a tiny laptop that has the same power as a full-sized laptop but is actually cheaper? Making things smaller while keeping them powerful costs a lot.
I was one of the early people on the forums saying the new Mini Retina would be $399 and the old one would drop to $299. First of all $329 was a weird price. But second of all, something had to give. It's just not possible to have your cake and eat it too. Apple doesn't subsidize these devices like Google by selling your personal info to advertisers or Amazon by putting ads everywhere and taking a loss on each device sold. And it's way faster than those devices. That's worth paying more for.