If you think assembly is the only cost of production a business faces, especially a global one, you're very very wrong.Lil devils x said:/snip
Getting Apple products to market is not just the variable cost of production but the incredible amount of fixed costs and R&D investment that went into having the product as we do today.
Are they overcharging? Depends, it's not like you require it to live, only to grow as an individual in the corporate world. Compare to real necessities like food prices, items with a very low markup - production costs are everything.
Look at small business - cost is everything. Cash flow, wages and rent are so important and directly impact the price of their product.
A cost doesn't have to be variable to impact the price of a commodity.
$80 per disabled person per day is a cost and one that only encourages greater cost should word get out it's occurring.