DailyMail - It might have underwhelmed the devotees, but sales of Apple’s iPhone 4S topped four million in just three days following last month’s launch, and it’s still the must-have smartphone this winter. Of course, those sleek looks don’t come cheap. Or do they..?
Out of contract, the iPhone 4S will cost you £499, but we can reveal that the nuts, bolts and high-end circuitry inside cost far less – see below for the total.
Apple ultimately decided to resolve these six-year-old court proceedings and agreed to pay $15 to each impacted iPhone 4s holder.
The Verge: All devices from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X are impacted.
Fair play to them. On the ethical hacker side of things I would use the hack as leverage against Apple to continue to support their equipment. As they just dropped support for their iPad mini2’s etc. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with them, they work perfectly fine but are now blocked from receiving security updates etc. So the consumer is forced to purchase a new product that does the exact same thing.
Apple is on the receiving end of a class-action lawsuit from disgruntled iPhone 4s owners. The suit, filed by Chaim Lerman and more than 100 others, alleges Apple's iOS 9 update severely degraded the smartphone's performance both in terms of third-party apps and core functionality.
true, but theres r&d, marketing, siri (whether you like it or not), and the os itself.
Like people expected Apple to work any other way.
God I hate people, so what it cost x amount, air jorden cost Nike 6 bucks to make in chine but yet they are 100 plus so what you don't like it don't pay it, and what about other phones what do they cost to what you pay! If you want it then pay it if not don't....
What do you expect from a Daily Mail article. Just trying to stir up drama. Clearly they choose to ignore that businesses need to sell products for more than their cost price to pay for staff, research, marketing and what not.
well Apple hardly need to "market" their product since the product pretty ,much does that automatically. R&D cost for hardware would be nil but maybe software R&D for Siri sure.