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Smartphone number for the day: $368. iPhone Infographic.

Per the Atlantic, Apple earns -- a fucking lot -- from each iPhone 4:

  • The average sale price of Apple's iPhone 4 is $560. Of that, $7 covers the cost of manufacturing, $178 goes to components, $7 is taken by Foxconn, and Apple walks away with the rest, or $368.
  • As Nokia and RIM's share of the global smartphone market shrunk between the second quarter of 2010 and the second quarter of 2011, that of Apple grew by more than six percent. Samsung's share also grew over that period.
  • Samsung contributes the flash memory, DRAM memory, and applications processors for Apple's iPhone 4. Those three components cost about $45.68 per unit.
  • Other components of the iPhone 4 and their cost: Battery, $6; accessories, $5.67; mechanicals and electro-mechanicals, $19.97; audio, $0.98; touchscreen control, $0.90; display and touchscreen, $38.50; power management, $1.51; bluetooth and Wi-Fi, $8.

When the ASP of your device is $560, and your device is the most popular, even if you weren't running a tight ship like Apple, you'd be swimming in cash. If you want, here's there infographic to prove it.

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