This year marks ten of the release of Apple's first iPhone and the giant of Cupertino has thrown the rest to commemorate such an exceptional date. The gift for the fans of Apple has been the iPhone X, a mobile without frames and with facial recognition.
A new model that exceeds 1,000 euros of price in stores and that come out, especially, from the new Samsung AMOLED screens, mounted for the first time in the iPhone range, and by the FaceID technology.
In the presentation of last September, this new iPhone came accompanied also by version 8 of Apple's smartphones. Its price around 800 euros and less changes with respect to its predecessor: the iPhone 7. The manufacturing cost of version 8 is significantly lower than that of the iPhone X, 216 euros compared to the 314 dollars of the latter, according to IHS Markit data. Of course, the price does not count the hours of assembly, so both would rise.
"Apple is paying a premium for OLED technology," said Wayne Lam, an analyst at IHS, "The technology is tied to a single vendor and Samsung can impose its price." Specifically, the Cupertino giant leaves 93.27 euros for each screen for the iPhone X for the 44.5 of the 5.5 inches of the LCD screen of the 8.
An expensive design
The new smartphone design of the tenth anniversary also raises the final bill. The iPhone 8 is designed in an aluminum structure, while the X is finished in stainless steel. A small change that adds 8.5 euros, according to IHS Markit, so each frame goes to Apple for 51.7 euros.
But the most remarkable change, beyond the screen, is in the reconversion of the TouchID into FaceID. For this, the Cupertino giant incorporates the True Depth Camera system, which includes modules such as an infrared camera and a spot projector to detect the three-dimensional structure of a face.
A risky bet that, at the moment, like users and companies, such as Caixabank in Spain that uses this technology for their online banking. However, FaceID costs Apple triple that of its mythical TouchID, that is 14 euros for each True Depth Camera.
The final price of the iPhone has not stopped rising these ten years, but neither has its manufacturing cost decreased. The iPhone 6 16 GB cost $ 200.1, the iPhone 7 32 GB rose to $ 224.8 and the iPhone 8 64 GB has now made $ 254.87. And if for the iPhone 6s Plus 16 GB were $ 236, for the iPhone 8 Plus 64 GB are $ 295.44. Of course, the IHS Markit study does not take into account neither the labor cost nor the investment nor the research.
A new model that exceeds 1,000 euros of price in stores and that come out, especially, from the new Samsung AMOLED screens, mounted for the first time in the iPhone range, and by the FaceID technology.
In the presentation of last September, this new iPhone came accompanied also by version 8 of Apple's smartphones. Its price around 800 euros and less changes with respect to its predecessor: the iPhone 7. The manufacturing cost of version 8 is significantly lower than that of the iPhone X, 216 euros compared to the 314 dollars of the latter, according to IHS Markit data. Of course, the price does not count the hours of assembly, so both would rise.
"Apple is paying a premium for OLED technology," said Wayne Lam, an analyst at IHS, "The technology is tied to a single vendor and Samsung can impose its price." Specifically, the Cupertino giant leaves 93.27 euros for each screen for the iPhone X for the 44.5 of the 5.5 inches of the LCD screen of the 8.
An expensive design
The new smartphone design of the tenth anniversary also raises the final bill. The iPhone 8 is designed in an aluminum structure, while the X is finished in stainless steel. A small change that adds 8.5 euros, according to IHS Markit, so each frame goes to Apple for 51.7 euros.
But the most remarkable change, beyond the screen, is in the reconversion of the TouchID into FaceID. For this, the Cupertino giant incorporates the True Depth Camera system, which includes modules such as an infrared camera and a spot projector to detect the three-dimensional structure of a face.
A risky bet that, at the moment, like users and companies, such as Caixabank in Spain that uses this technology for their online banking. However, FaceID costs Apple triple that of its mythical TouchID, that is 14 euros for each True Depth Camera.
The final price of the iPhone has not stopped rising these ten years, but neither has its manufacturing cost decreased. The iPhone 6 16 GB cost $ 200.1, the iPhone 7 32 GB rose to $ 224.8 and the iPhone 8 64 GB has now made $ 254.87. And if for the iPhone 6s Plus 16 GB were $ 236, for the iPhone 8 Plus 64 GB are $ 295.44. Of course, the IHS Markit study does not take into account neither the labor cost nor the investment nor the research.
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