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Is it, really ? Even Apple has to cut corners somewhere to reach that price.

• cosmic_cheese 1y ago
  Not necessarily. They’re saving quite a bit from using their own SoCs which they’re also shipping in iPhones and iPads, both from massive economy of scale as well as from not having to make money on each SoC sold (unlike e.g. Intel or Qualcomm). There’s also other tricks they could pull like sharing screen panels and other components with iPads. Heck they might just use an iPad mainboard flashed with different firmware.
• AstroBen 1y ago
  They don't necessarily need to be profitable on their base model with the amount they make from upgrades and the backend