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On top of that 300, add R&D costs, marketing, assembly and shipping and you could very well justify the hefty price we pay for the iPhone. I am actually surpri

by chirau 10y ago

On top of that 300, add R&D costs, marketing, assembly and shipping and you could very well justify the hefty price we pay for the iPhone. I am actually surprised it cost this much to make custom.

microcolonel 10y ago
For what it's worth, he did pay for almost all of the assembly. He bought an assembled mainboard, and paid about 70 bucks for the assembly on the screen (in addition to what he already paid for parts).
justboxing 10y ago
Yep. In the video comments, he says he spent well over $1000. Justifies the $300 price tag by stating that he didn't need the $700+ worth of parts and tools he purchased. > Strange Parts 4 hours ago > Thanks for subscribing! I spent well over $1000, but a lot of that was parts and tools I didn't end up needing. I'd say it's probably around $300 worth of parts in the actual phone. Source: Direct link to comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA&lc=z13bd1eposzxsbtp304cedd4womcxn5jmbg.1492016971829084 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA&lc=z13bd1eposzxs...
- rtkwe 10y ago
  The extra parts cost was from a dead end where he was going to attempt to populate a bare PCB with the various chips etc. Eventually he found someone that told him just how many boards he'd have to make before he'd get a working board trying to do it by hand.
2muchcoffeeman 10y ago
He said that some of the parts are refurbished. So $300 is not really the cost of making them right? Apple made a phone from scratch, sold it, someone got the parts and refurbished them to on sell them. So you'd expect the price to be much lower? What's the original cost?
Taniwha 10y ago
Well it doesn't really .. that's what it cost Scotty doing it the way he did. He was making a video to highlight that phones live on after you throw them away. He probably wasn't trying to make a profit, he was trying to make an interesting movie. If you visit the markets where he's buying you'll find a virtual disassembly line breaking down phones into component parts (to logic boards if they still work, and chips if they don't) followed by an assembly line of people making 'new' phones from those parts. The thing is that there are people in the "dodgy cell phone market" (people call it that) who are making a good living (by local norms) building iPhones, sometimes from scratch with recycled parts
vacri 10y ago
Apple's $100+ billion in cash suggests that there's quite a bit of fat in the price for the iPhone.
namlem 10y ago
Those are genuine refurbished iPhone parts. If he were making an Android phone he could have done it for much less.

by chirau 10y ago

On top of that 300, add R&D costs, marketing, assembly and shipping and you could very well justify the hefty price we pay for the iPhone. I am actually surprised it cost this much to make custom.

microcolonel 10y ago

For what it's worth, he did pay for almost all of the assembly. He bought an assembled mainboard, and paid about 70 bucks for the assembly on the screen (in addition to what he already paid for parts).

justboxing 10y ago

Yep. In the video comments, he says he spent well over $1000. Justifies the $300 price tag by stating that he didn't need the $700+ worth of parts and tools he purchased. > Strange Parts 4 hours ago > Thanks for subscribing! I spent well over $1000, but a lot of that was parts and tools I didn't end up needing. I'd say it's probably around $300 worth of parts in the actual phone. Source: Direct link to comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA&lc=z13bd1eposzxsbtp304cedd4womcxn5jmbg.1492016971829084 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA&lc=z13bd1eposzxs...

rtkwe 10y ago
The extra parts cost was from a dead end where he was going to attempt to populate a bare PCB with the various chips etc. Eventually he found someone that told him just how many boards he'd have to make before he'd get a working board trying to do it by hand.

2muchcoffeeman 10y ago

He said that some of the parts are refurbished. So $300 is not really the cost of making them right? Apple made a phone from scratch, sold it, someone got the parts and refurbished them to on sell them. So you'd expect the price to be much lower? What's the original cost?

Taniwha 10y ago

Well it doesn't really .. that's what it cost Scotty doing it the way he did. He was making a video to highlight that phones live on after you throw them away. He probably wasn't trying to make a profit, he was trying to make an interesting movie. If you visit the markets where he's buying you'll find a virtual disassembly line breaking down phones into component parts (to logic boards if they still work, and chips if they don't) followed by an assembly line of people making 'new' phones from those parts. The thing is that there are people in the "dodgy cell phone market" (people call it that) who are making a good living (by local norms) building iPhones, sometimes from scratch with recycled parts

vacri 10y ago

Apple's $100+ billion in cash suggests that there's quite a bit of fat in the price for the iPhone.

namlem 10y ago

Those are genuine refurbished iPhone parts. If he were making an Android phone he could have done it for much less.