[X4U] The production price of an iPad

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> From: zapcat at speakeasy.net
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:20:02 -0800
> To: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: Re: [X4U] The production price of an iPad
>
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> On Feb 12, 2010, at 2:19 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:
>
>> I wonder if their estimates includes the profit for the company that
>> makes it for Apple.
>>
>> Of course, a lot of Apple's R&D went into the design and
>> engineering of
>> the iPad. It's not all profit.
>
>
> Aside from their R&D expenses, there's something else at work against
> apple in the public perception of how much things ought to cost.
>
> and that is the notion that everything should be of top quality but
> should have the lowest price possible. No concern over how or why the
> price can BE low...
>
> ...such as in the case of offloading the slave labor onto another
> country. That helps lower prices.


I am in no way in favor of policies that encourage businesses to offload their labor to other countries that have cheaper labor largely due to the fact that they would not meet most of our labor/environmental laws...but I can see that one of the benefits of doing so is the reduction in foreign aide. I like that the money goes in some degree to the masses and not the graftocracy (at least I'd like to think that is what is happening.)




 Or, using cheap parts, lousy
> design, and generally slapping things together, not thinking things
> through..
>
> All of that helps keep prices low.
>
> One line that killed during Jobs's presentation was how Apple wanted
> to make a pad-type advice that actually offered improvements and did
> things better. But that the "netbook" doesn't do anything better.
> It's just cheaper."
>
> There ya go right there, friends. If "cheap prices" are your
> immovable, you will get what you pay for...and pay for what you get.
>
> zc
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