The $3499 Apple Vision Pro reportedly costs $1542 to make.

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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (6 children)

bill of materials” for the headset at $1,542, and that doesn’t include the costs of research and development, packaging, marketing or Apple’s profit margin.

Please read it, it's just another version of the "the iPhone cost 500$ to make". Research and especially marketing can sometimes be as much as the material and assembly cost. Id be surprised that apple doesn't make a profit on it, but it might not be close at all to 100% .

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It quite clearly seems to be some kind of public beta test product and enough rich people seem to be happy to pay for being the test hamsters.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It costing that much in materials seems a bit much though I heard its casing is milled from a brick (probably not literally) of aliminium. Combing the other high tech and mass production aspects I feel like it costing 1k is more believable. But what do I know not even employed in any manfacturing job.

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