For the iPhone 14 you have to dig deeper into your pocket than for the iPhone 13. New calculations show why Apple has probably raised prices. The production of the new smartphones is more expensive than ever. Apple has to pay significantly more for some components.
iPhone 14: Production 20 percent more expensive
While the iPhone 13 cost at least 899 euros when it was launched in Germany, customers have to pay 999 euros for the variant with 128 GB of memory for the successor. Also on the iPhone 14 Plus, Pro and Pro Max Apple turned the price screw. Why the new iPhone costs more can be explained, at least in part, by higher costs for Apple – in addition to local inflation, of course.
Calculations by Nikkei Asia have shown that Apple is responsible for the production of the iPhone 14 models has to spend 20 percent more on average, when it was still the case with the iPhone 13. The individual components have never been as expensive as they are today. The iPhone 14 Pro Max will cost $501 to manufacture, compared to $461 for the predecessor.
According to the report, Apple has to for Sony’s image sensors pay 50 percent more. Manufacturing the A16 Bionic chip is noticeable at $110 per unit. That could also be a reason why Apple is still using last year’s model A15 Bionic for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.
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iPhone 14: Expensive components from the USA
Compared to the iPhone 13, it has especially with American components given a price increase. They are now responsible for 32.4 percent of the total production costs of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. With the predecessor it was still 22.6 percent. On the other hand, the China price share has fallen from 4.5 percent to 3.8 percent.
Apple’s Return to the USA is also noticeable in the price share of South Korea and Japan. Only 24.8 percent instead of 30.4 percent of the production costs are incurred in South Korea, in Japan it is 10.9 percent instead of 14.5 percent (source: Nikkei Asia).