Here’s How Much It Costs Apple To Make The iPhone 15 Pro Max This Year – News18

iPhone 15 Pro Max costs a good Rs 20,000 more than the Pro variant this year while its starting price tag of $1,199 for the 256GB base variant shows that phone prices have gone out of hand.

But how much does it actually cost Apple to make the new 15 Pro Max variant? We finally have some answers for that and some interesting details have come through courtesy of a new report from Counterpoint Research.

The firm says Apple had to increase the price of the 15 Pro Max because of the higher cost on the new A17 chipset and using a new telephoto sensor. It says that the bill of materials (BoM) for the iPhone 15 Pro Max is $502 which is more than half of what Apple is charging for the model from buyers. The report mentions that Apple had to pay $37 more to make the iPhone 15 Pro Max compared to its predecessor.

Every year we see these reports highlighting the actual cost of the new iPhones and then we question how does it cost $1,199 for consumers? Well, the company has to add the cost of marketing, packaging and other aspects when the device hits the market. The details from the report also suggest that the price of RAM (memory) and display was lower than what Apple paid to make the iPhone 14 Pro Max last year.

Here in India, the iPhone 15 Pro Max prices have shot up further this year and that has more to do with the import duties and other taxes that Apple has to pay for importing the devices. The company has managed to stabilise the prices of the make in India iPhone 15 model and in the coming years people could benefit from a similar change for the Pro Maxes as well.