The iTrouble with iSuppli's iPhone iTeardown iEstimate
iSuppli's iPhone (oh, all these darn "i"s) teardown estimate -- with its 50% margins -- is getting lots of play. And while it's interesting, people really do need to read to the end.With the Apple iPhone not expected to ship until mid 2007—and thus a teardown not possible until that time—iSuppli has made a preliminary estimate of costs based on available information.iSuppli is saying outright that this teardown differs from its other teardowns in that it never, you know, actually tore anything down. It didn't have an iPhone to analyze, so this is entirely speculation. Yes, it's fun speculation, but the estimates could be way, way off.
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