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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by danpalmer on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:28PM (#15193339)
> Most estimates peg Apples margin on them in the low single digits...

Any references for this. My gut feeling doesn't match up with this. I can't imagine the bill of materials being more than 1/3rd of the cost?

Unless those estimates are including the R&D cost, I imagine these are low volume, and that Apple spent a lot of money on developing them.

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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by macintux on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:35PM (#15194578)
Given the long lead time on orders for, what, nearly a year now, it seems likely these are not trivial to manufacture.

And these are really tiny computers and highly optimized batteries, so I'd be surprised if the BoM is that low, but determining that is definitely not my strong suit.

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