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Last I heard the actual manufacturing cost was about $10 [1] marketing and R&D are pretty much fixed costs and don't really work well in accounting for per-unit margins. At the end of the day there's still no indication that Apple is sacrificing margin for market share.

[1] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/16/high_cost_of_n...



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