iPad Costs Only $229 to Produce?

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c0rd said:

V-r0cK said:

Vanbierk said:
I don't know if you knew this before...but all apple hardware is marked up quite a bit, doesn't matter what it is, if it's got the apple logo, it's marked up. If people want it, they pay that marked up price without question to support them.

I know some of Apple's products are rediculously overpriced but some seems to be a bit more reasonable.  I just thought the iPad was more along the line of a higher end netbook due to the price, but now i see it as equivalent to the low end netbooks. 

I actually believe some people dont know that Apple's products are overpriced.  Apple's created themselves this image that their products are all high-end (due to appearance and price), so some people feel when they want to get the good stuff they buy Apple.  One of my friend just bought a Mac laptop for this reason eventho i've told her Apple overprice, but maybe if i show her this chart she'll finally be more convinced.

Generally, I think its very useful if consumers know how much of a profit or loss a product makes.

When you say overpriced, what do you mean? Relative to the competition?

Apple is not just selling computer parts, they're giving you an overall package. You're essentially paying for their ideas, which is not unlike how Nintendo runs their business. How ridiculous would it be if we compared the budgets of Nintendo games, and the budgets of GTA and Call of Duty, and tell the Wii/DS majority that they're getting ripped off?

Now, I understand that in the case of these Apple products, it's not exactly the same, but the user experience does matter (where Apple puts a lot of focus into). People aren't just mindless sheep that buy things because they see an Apple logo on it,

I stopped reading right there.  Because that is EXACTLY what most Apple customers are.  They buy up all the highly exaggerated and misrepresented advertising as fact, and they actually believe that the Apple products with their OS make them somehow better at designing things.  I don't know how many times people with Art interests buy Macs simply because they are mindless sheep that think Macs are the better device for Art.  Too bad most professionals even using Macs still use the standard Adobe Suite that runs on PC as well... You could buy a PC with twice the power for the same price as the Mac and really be churning out that Artsy stuff, but these people are clueless and buy into anything Apple says on TV.