IHS iSuppli has determined the Amazon's Kindle Fire to costs $201.70 USD to manufacture and build. The BOM (bill of materials) cost is $185.60 while actually making and assembling the⦠Read the whole story
Someone gets paid $16 to assemble ONE tablet? I know a lot of geeks who are unemployed that would take half that to assemble tablets. Da** you new world order
You don't get $16 per tablet you make, its sixteen per tablet made divided by the number of people on the assembly line.
it's what boils down from the accounting formula (raw material + labor + fixed cost + overhead / total unit). it's not like they pay someone $16 to assemble each one.
this is a very stupid comment, cant stop laughing, " one dude gets paid $16 to assemble the whole thing" LOL