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iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD

Posted by timothy on from the price-theory-at-work dept.

sweetpea86 writes "... but retails for $130 more. Teardowns of the Apple iPad Mini and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD have revealed that the two devices cost almost the same amount to manufacture, despite the retail prices being significantly different. Andrew Rassweiler, senior principal analyst of teardown services for IHS iSuppli, explains that Apple is sticking to the premium brand strategy it has always used for its media tablet and smartphone products, whereas Amazon is banking on content."

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  1. Re:Few things by Andy+Prough · · Score: 1, Troll

    It costs big bucks to turn all that volunteer FreeBSD coding into Apple Gold.

    FIFY.

  2. Re:Few things by poetmatt · · Score: 1, Troll

    Except that we're not talking about food or inkjets.

    The point is, apple's profit isn't actual quality - it's just a surcharge for people dumb enough to buy. They didn't develop their OS or the ideas, they just refine everyone else's stuff, just like............
    everyone else.

    Thus, reason for apple being worth more = nonexistent.