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Comment on Cost to Manufacture iPhone 5 is $167

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No, the BOM is the price of all the components at the expected volumes of the given manufacturer.

That's like saying the cost of dinner at a fancy restaurant was the shoppers grocery bill. There is the staff costs and storage/movement costs as well as all the rest of the infrastructure to add to that.

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