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iSuppli: Google's Nexus One Costs $175 to Manufacture

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One thing I've never understood about iSuppli is when they price "the Synaptics touchscreen at $17.50"… who's price is that? It's not like Google is going to pay the same price as me going to RadioShack. When Apple cornered the memory market, did they realize that Apple had way better prices then other manufacturers? Do they account for any of this at all?

They seem to throw down per-component prices all the time without showing how they derive them.

Gruber had an article about iSuppli a while back: http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/isuppli

I wouldn't put too much into this.

I usually like Gruber, but he shouldn't blame iSuppli for the way fanboys complain about profit margins.

I've never seen iSuppli do anything except take products apart and look at what parts are inside. They're simply providing a service to investment analysts and competitors.

Well iSupply is being dishonest in forgetting to mention manufacturing costs and all that other over head that goes into making the device but from a purely materials perceptive they may be correct.

The iSuppli press release is titled 'Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost.'

The third sentence reads "This total comprises only hardware and component costs for the Nexus One itself and does not take into consideration other expenses such as manufacturing, software, box contents, accessories and royalties."

Your accusation seems spurious at best. Some might call it dishonest.

I'm talking about the daringfireball article. Not the posted one. on second look perhaps it's just the secondary articles that are misquoting. If you don't like the word dishonest replace it with exaggerated.

You said iSuppli was being dishonest. They weren't. They're not exaggerating either.

iSuppli isn't responsible if daringfireball (or anybody else) mangles their actual statements.

I'll stand my statement that you are dishonest, and at your suggestion I'll add an addendum that you're exaggerating the scope of iSuppli's responsibility.

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