After the launch of each Apple product, different companies that deal with the service of this kind of products start to disassemble them to find out what exactly is hidden inside them. iSuppli, iFixit and other big companies have disassembled the iPad 2 and we have a first estimate of the manufacturing price for a 2 GB iPad 3 32G tablet. Production cost for the GSM version it is $326 and for the CDMA version it is $323. The purchase price of this tablet model? $729 in the Apple Store, so Apple earns $400 for each unit sold, so a profit greater than 100%.
In this case the estimates are for the 32-gigabyte, 3G version of the iPad which sells for $729, and there are two estimates, one for the AT&T version — $326.60, and one for the Verizon Wireless version — $323.35. Some of the wireless chips used in the AT&T version are a little more expensive or require an extra part.
For the Wi-Fi versions, the production costs decrease, but together with them, the sales prices also decrease, but Apple probably earns as much money from the sale of tablets. Among the internal components of the tablet, the most expensive is the display, which costs $127, which means almost half of the entire production cost. Of course, these are just estimates and Apple could pay less for the production of tablets, but one thing is as clear as possible, Apple earns a lot of money with each sale.
