iPad 3 shell assembled from various suppliers’ parts [video]

2. phones522 posted on 04 Mar 2012, 19:58 8

thats not true i live in a tiny apartment and my mom bought me one and im not rich at all

15. android_hitman posted on 05 Mar 2012, 01:34 2

so then you forced your mom to make sacrifices to buy you this stupid gadget ... very well son

5. frydaexiii posted on 04 Mar 2012, 20:15 8

iPads are for pretentious people who just want to show it off instead of actually doing work on it. and I don't think it takes Apple $200 to build it, probably only like 50 bucks or so...

7. Lucas777 posted on 04 Mar 2012, 20:24 13

actually if you bothered to look it up (which u didnt), you would have found it costs 326.60 according to issupply… this doesnt include shipping, retail, marketing, and r&d…

maybe some people want to show off their ipads, but most people use it for honest productivity and consumption..

13. frydaexiii posted on 05 Mar 2012, 00:43 0

iSupply? An earlier article on Phonearena showed it took $30 to build an iPhone...an iPad is practically just an iPhone but in a larger shell with a larger screen (Which shouldn't even alot cost more than the 4S's "Retina" display) and battery. In fact, the Wifi version would be even cheaper considering it doesn't have the 3G and phone components the iPhone has.

And if people actually wanted to use it for "honest productivity", they wouldn't waste their time with an iPad which uses iTunes for even the most basic file transfers.

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18. deago78 posted on 05 Mar 2012, 08:01 1

Yea and that "larger screen" costs well over $100. Math

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21. frydaexiii posted on 05 Mar 2012, 09:19 0

That's if you're buying in small numbers like in tens or hundreds. At the amount of screens Apple probably orders, millions to billions, the price can easily drop to $40 - $50 each. Mass Production...

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24. gp284 posted on 05 Mar 2012, 11:27 0

Billions?

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27. Lucas777 posted on 05 Mar 2012, 20:18 0

im not sure if u know, (i assume not) but the retina screen alone costs just shy of 100 i believe…

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19. theoak posted on 05 Mar 2012, 09:15 3

Sorry ... this is lame ... this is America ... you are allowed to make a profit.

If you had a business ... and had a product ... would you sell that product at what people are willing to buy it for ... or just to break even?

Yup ... thought so ...

20. android_hitman posted on 05 Mar 2012, 09:16 1

iPad2s, the casing it's 95% the same ...

12. maxlimyo posted on 04 Mar 2012, 23:37 1

it sang by BoA - Woo Weekend :)

14. frydaexiii posted on 05 Mar 2012, 00:45 2

Haha, the sad part? That's probably what Apple does for R&D for the iPad 3 and iPhone 4S.

11. Hunt3rj2 posted on 04 Mar 2012, 23:08 0

lolok

23. W.P._Android_in_that_Order posted on 05 Mar 2012, 11:14 1

I agree