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Seems bad but think this would be fairly normal mark up if this is the price from production cost, also what price does the phone shop buy them off apple for and you think we pay 20% vat on the final item. They always use to quote CD cost 50p to make back when they sold them for £16 and that 30% of the final cost of perfume was the price to advertise it. Retail is a crazy world with lots of people along the chain taking a cut
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"Breezer" Wrote:Its an Apple product, rich people will buy it regardless of price
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Amazon-...13953.html
Ah but a Kindle is useless without books to furnish it so Amazon can afford to make a loss on that product to tie you into buying books from their store at a healthly profit.
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Software development costs (the purchase of Siri is rumoured to have cost $1-200m alone), marketing, staff costs, import taxes, shipping, royalty payments (Nokia get $5 for every iPhone sold), various admin overheads will all bring the cost of the phone up. Ridiculous article expecting a product to only be worth the sum of its parts, that's the Daily Mail for you.
I bet the Galaxy S2 doesn't cost anymore than $200 to make, but no one would whinge about that because it's not as much fun as Apple bashing which for some reason seems to be coming a daily occurrence on here. YAWN!!!!!!
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Well the number one remit of any large company will be to maximise shareholder wealth and you will find that pension groups are usually the biggest stakeholders in most of the largest corporations so any negative effect on their earnings or value will have a big impact on the value of people's retirement pots.
its a bit of a non-sense really, we could all go out and buy the bits for £112 but we couldnt make a phone out of them, actually we probably couldnt go out and buy the bits, we would need base materials, tooling, moulds etc etc first.
I cant really justify complaining about the cost of stuff I cant even begin to make for myself.