It has been said in recent years that Apple is a very greedy company, it has been said that it obtains a very large profit from the sale of its own products, and this is true, but it is not the only one. Those from Fortune they compared the prices of the components, excluding the assembly costs, of the iPad 4 and Microsoft Surface RT tablets, and in the end it was discovered that Apple obtains a lower profit than Microsoft when selling tablets. If you look at the image below, you will notice that all the components of the tablet iPad 4 32 GB costs $293, while all components of the Surface RT tablet cost $271.
The assembly price is not included in the calculation, but it is approximately $10 for each tablet and practically nothing changes in the final result. Microsoft makes a bigger profit than Apple when selling tablets, from this profit we subtract the costs of assembly, marketing, delivery, etc., but the important thing is how much the product costs when it leaves the factory, and here Microsoft is more greedy than Apple.
