Inside the phone, the battery module is the next most obvious part, and it’s hardly a whopper either. The Samsung battery inside the iPhone 11 Pro Max costs about $10.50, the site says.
Then there’s the triple camera module, which lets you take all of those glorious shots. Those combined set Apple back about $73.50. The rest of the phone a processor, the modem, and the memory, as well as the circuit boards that house ‘em – go for about $159. And a variety of other sensors, wires, PCBs, and so on is required to put the whole thing together into a recognizable form factor. Those bits and pieces cost about $181.
According to an iFixit analysis of 2018’s iPhone XS Max ($1,250) 256GB model said the phone contains about $443 worth of materials. That’s a difference of $807, meaning Apple’s making substantially less on its new phones than it did last year.
A teardown analysis of that 16GB model, which sold for $649 at the time, revealed that components and manufacturing costs added up to $200.10, or about $450 less than Apple charged you at the time. Time magazine noted at the time that the price tag was more than three times the cost of components and manufacturing.
Clearly, iPhone parts have gotten substantially more expensive, and there’s more stuff overall getting crammed into phones, especially camera lenses. And keep in mind that the earlier analysis includes manufacturing costs.
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