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> I note that with all the sophisticated technology in this device, the
> single most expensive component is... the display?!
It's a nice display though :-)
> I'm also surprised at just how cheap the casing is; you would have thought
> making something that can survive being sat on, dropped on the pavement,
> rained on or flushed down a toilet would be very expensive. But apparently
> not.
Those parts are typically quite cheap to produce in high volume, once you
have the tooling done it's just injecting cheap plastic into a mould or
cutting and folding sheets of cheap metal.
> (Strictly, they list the cost of the materials, not the cost of actually
> assembling them.)
The list is the amount you pay to buy those components (which includes the
sub-assembly needed for those individual components), on top of that price
there is about another $10 to assemble that lot together into an iPhone.
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