In alt.cellular.t-mobile Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org> wrote:
>
> I'd be surprised if they cost more than $25 to make, but exact cost
> information doesn't seem possible to get. Many people claim that
> phones really "cost" the $200-$500 that carriers charge, but I don't
> believe it. Why would phones be the only consumer electronics devices
> that don't have a huge markup?
>

NEW technology has high costs [especially phones with CDMA technology due to
Qualcomm licensing], but once it hits mass production, the price goes down.
Consider prescription drugs. Prilosec, when it was released, was very
expensive yet the same company now sells it over-the-counter quite cheaply.

--
Thomas T. Veldhouse

America is the country where you buy a lifetime
supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.