Sold at a starting price of 329 U.S. dollars, the iPad Mini is the cheapest tablet device from Apple that staying digadang setanding rivals for Android tablet devices similar.
While it is cheap for the size of Apple products, what is the cost of production necessary to create an iPad Mini?
The question is what trying answered by IHS iSuppli. As usual, the agency's analysts dismantle the gadget market is to find out how much the cost of manufacture.
After unpacking the component per component veri Mini iPad 16 GB WiFi Only, IHS iSuppli concluded that the cost of production is about 188 tablets U.S. dollars (approximately USD 1.8 million).
This means that Apple takes 43 percent gross margin by selling it at number 329 U.S. dollars (about USD 3.2 million).
Apple's net profit is estimated that 30 percent, or about 100 dollars for each unit of the iPad Mini.
Of course, it only applies purely based on price per component. There are still other costs are not included in the calculation.
Apple has ever claimed that the iPad Mini has a thinner profit margins than the average other products.
One possible cause is the 7.9-inch screen made by LG and AUO, which cost about 40 percent of the total cost of production. Mini iPad screen is made with a new technology that enables the manufacture of thinner panel, but production figures are not as expected.
Here are the details and a comparison of the cost of production and Surface tablet iPad Mini 32 GB of Microsoft and Kindle Fire HD 16 GB of Amazon.
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