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TouchPad teardown: it costs $328 to make, $10 more than the iPad 2
extremetech.com
$600 tablet, minus ten bucks, minus 320 in parts. Oh, that's profit of like $250 bucks.
No, that's not profit.
Deduct software. Deduct marketing. Deduct office space Deduct legal. Deduct everything that goes into making one of these things.
Products don't just magically appear from 0 employees and a pile of parts, neither do profits.
The odd thing is that iSuppli has the enclosure etc. at $35 for the iPad 2 and $30 for the TouchPad. I have a really hard time putting any faith in that number, since it's not like components where you just look up the price. Did iSuppli really figure out how much it would cost to make a custom machined aluminum case?