I pay the retail price but it kills me to think a phone could cost so much when the parts inside don't even cost $200.
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That's just the parts.
Now let's pay the people that make the parts.
Then let's pay the people that assemble the phones.
How about the cost to ship the phones over?
And I haven't even included the cost for the engineers who design the hardware and software.
Or the people that market the phones.
I know you're not implying that the cost of these phones should be $200. But a lot goes into making a phone from start to finish. If there is no other direct revenue channel to subsidize the manufacturer's cost, they really can't go around selling phones at-cost.
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