Originally Posted By: DWallach
The bill of materials on the Nexus 7 is allegedly $152. Manufacturing + shipping, I dunno, but if they're not breaking even, it's certainly close. Also, that's for the 8GB version. Add another $50 for the 16GB version, and maybe they're more balanced. Certainly, they're not making a killing. What they are doing is changing around the market.


Those BOM estimates were always hilariously low. Doesn't seem that any of the people in the teardown companies have ever tried making devices; things like the cost of the PCBs and flexes were always handwaved away when in fact they're serious parts of the device cost.