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Cake day: January 16th, 2025

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  • I don’t know what exactly you’re referring to but I assume you mean the bill of material cost that sometimes goes around in headlines like “new phone only costs $150 to produce and is sold for $500” or something like that.

    That’s a flawed way of looking at it because it ignores things like:

    • Shipping cost (both the final product and individual components)
    • Development cost
    • The % the retail store takes

    And of course profit which ideally is used to finance the development of the next device and ofc the greedy execs at the end who put the rest in their pockets (that’s the only part which you can actually cut)









  • “because it was shit” if you look at the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini they were essentially the same phone just in different sizes, while the sales of the mini stayed in the low 1 diget % the iPhone 13 was around 35-40% of all iPhone sales in it’s first year.

    I agree with some of the things in your 2nd part it has nothing to do with small phones.

    And not to say you said it but it came up in the article a couple times, comparing screen inch sizes to determine if a phone is big or not is flawed > the screen to body ratio increased a lot over the last year’s which means that a phone could have the same physical size with a bigger screen.