Six generations on, and the cost of materials has decreased dramatically from the first-ever iPod Nano, which cost $US89.97 – for just 2GB. The 8GB version that came out recently has parts totalling $US43.73.
Even the second-gen iPod Nano, which was double the capacity of the first one, cost a whopping $US72.24. Of course, this was back in the day when a 4GB iPod Nano cost $US199 upfront, compared to the $US149 an 8GB-er costs now.
iSuppli has listed manufacturing costs at around $US1.37, and while this is the first model to contain a touchscreen component, the screen and Toshiba-originated memory together costs just half of the total materials cost. [iSuppli]
josh
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 9:11 AMwell thats stoped me buying one, y spend $150USD on something that actualy costs around $50…
matt
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 11:49 AMI thought the new nano started at $200…
either way. major fail, my biggest issue with it was that it was too expensive… now to see there is no excuse for that??
make it $100 max, and let people make apps for it, and DOMINATE the “i want an mp3 player, or trip computer, stats keeper, stopwatch, that isn’t as big and impractical as the touch” market!
Mick
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 6:20 PM@Josh – if you could see what day-to-day items *cost* at the source, you’d have a hard time buying anything! Remember, ~$43 gets Apple an assembled ipod sitting at a factory somewhere in Asia – the difference in retail price and cost price can be attributed to taxes, transport, associated insurance, marketing gets a cut, perhaps some royalties to someone for MP3 decoding codecs (?), and don’t forget the wages paid to the wife & girlfriend avoiding geeks who designed the thing in the first place! And then there’s still the profit in there as well for Apple – the reason they made the thing in the first place (sorry, iThings don’t exist *just* to make the world a better place…)
@Matt – fact is – they do dominate the market. though hopefully someone brings out a hack for it so the creative minds of the masses can go to work dreaming up new uses for an otherwise neat little HMI.