Jakarta: Apple have started selling series iPhone 13 latest in a number of countries. The price of the iPhone 13 series is priced at the cheapest starting at Rp. 9.9 million.
Excerpted from the report Tech InsightsThe iPhone 13 Pro is said to require more expensive production costs than its predecessor, the iPhone 12 Pro. In fact, the production cost of the iPhone 13 Pro is also more expensive than Samsung’s top flagship phone, the Galaxy S21 Plus.
Tech Insights said the manufacturing cost for an iPhone 13 Pro could reach 570 US dollars or equivalent to Rp. 8.1 million (exchange rate of Rp. 14,193).
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“The production cost is higher than the iPhone 12 Pro, which costs US$548.5 or equivalent to Rp7.8 million,” the report said. Tech Insights, Thursday, October 7, 2021.
Meanwhile, the production cost of the Galaxy S21 Plus is lower, which is US$ 508 or equivalent to Rp. 7.2 million. The production cost of the iPhone 13 Pro is more expensive than the previous version due to the high price of spare parts. Another reason, the panel and chipset of the iPhone 13 Pro is better than its predecessor.
The production cost factor of the iPhone 13 Pro is expensive
As known, iPhone The 13 Pro carries a screen with an LTPO OLED panel that supports a 120 Hz refresh rate and the ProMotion feature. These two things cannot be found on the iPhone 12 Pro.
In addition, the iPhone 13 Pro is equipped with Apple’s latest chipset, A15 Bionic, which is mass produced using TSMC’s N5P process. The use of new panels and chipsets is what makes the production cost of the iPhone 13 series more expensive than the previous version.
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The price of the iPhone 13 series is not affected by production costs
Although the production cost of the iPhone 13 is more expensive than the previous series, Apple still does not increase the selling price of the iPhone 13 series. For example, the iPhone 13 Pro is priced similar to the iPhone 12 Pro, starting at 999 US dollars or equivalent to Rp. 14.2 million.
The price tag is also much cheaper than the iPhone 12 Pro. Because, the price tag of 999 US dollars applies to the iPhone 13 Pro 128 GB variant. Meanwhile, last year, new users could get the 64GB variant of the iPHone 12 Pro at a similar price.
How Apple reduced the production price of the iPhone 13 series
Apple cut costs on iPhone RAM components to be able to sell the iPhone 13 series at the same price tag as the previous version. Apple is reportedly still using the 6GB LPDDR4X RAM supplied by SK Hynix for the iPhone 13 Pro. Meanwhile, other mobile phone vendors have switched to LPDDR5 RAM which has better quality.
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