• le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    bill of materials” for the headset at $1,542, and that doesn’t include the costs of research and development, packaging, marketing or Apple’s profit margin.

    Please read it, it’s just another version of the “the iPhone cost 500$ to make”. Research and especially marketing can sometimes be as much as the material and assembly cost. Id be surprised that apple doesn’t make a profit on it, but it might not be close at all to 100% .

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      8 months ago

      It quite clearly seems to be some kind of public beta test product and enough rich people seem to be happy to pay for being the test hamsters.

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      8 months ago

      It costing that much in materials seems a bit much though I heard its casing is milled from a brick (probably not literally) of aliminium. Combing the other high tech and mass production aspects I feel like it costing 1k is more believable. But what do I know not even employed in any manfacturing job.