Palm Pre Costs $170.02 to Make Says iSuppli
April 30, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Cellphones, Home Entertainment
At the very least, each Pre costs $170.02 for Palm to produce, reports the analysts at iSuppli:
Hardware – $137.83
“manufacturing and basic test costs” – $9.58
“software and licensing costs” – $22.61
“shipping, logistics, marketing and other channel costs” – unknown
Regaining the developer passion that created thousands of useful apps for the old Palm OS – priceless
Getting the most out of its partnership with Sprint – priceless
Marketing the gadget like their lives depended on it (because it really does) – priceless
Oh don’t mind the last three items: those are some of the things I think Palm has to do if the Pre has …read more
