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It's about what Motorola sells in a quarter: http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/31/the-end-of-easy-growth-in-smartphones/ http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/31/the-end-of
by bonzoesc 15y ago
It's about what Motorola sells in a quarter: http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/31/the-end-of-easy-growth-in-smartphones/ http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/31/the-end-of-easy-growth-in-s...
And assuming they're evenly split between 16GB and 32GB (it's not, there's also 64GB models in the mix), it's over a billion dollars in revenue before carrier subsidies.
- jonknee 15y ago> it's over a billion dollars in revenue before carrier subsidies. And considering that Apple doesn't care about the subsidies (they get paid up front), it's a whole lot of revenue.
- jevinskie 15y agoHow does ATT get their subsidy then? Apple pays them a cut of the retail price of the iPhone?
- bonzoesc 15y agoAT&T, Verizon, and Sprint pay Apple an undisclosed sum of money for each carrier-locked and two-year-contracted iPhone sold.
- jonknee 15y agoIt's AT&T's subsidy. They pay retail (or very close to it) for the phones. They a $199 iPhone, but pay $649 for it. Apple books revenues for sales over time so they may not get it all up front (they're at least not realizing all the revenue up front), but the sale is worth the $649 value regardless of whether it was sold off contract or not.
- culturestate 15y agoIt's actually in the neighborhood of $2.8 billion in revenue. (2000000 * 649)+(2000000 * 749) = 2,796,000,000
- bonzoesc 15y agoI just used the subsidized US prices of $199, $299, and $399, it's a lower number but it's also a definite lower bound.
- culturestate 15y agoAh, gotcha. This article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203405504576603053795839250.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020340550457660...) references a Credit Suisse analysis that says "Apple got $632 on average for each iPhone sold in its most recent quarter..." At that number, we're a little over $2.5 billion. Staggering.