A customer views an Apple Inc. iPhone 8 smartphone during the sales launch of the Apple Inc. iPhone 8 smartphone, Apple watch series 3 device, and Apple TV 4K inside a store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. Apple Inc. unveiled its most important new iPhone for years to take on growing competition from Samsung Electronics Co., Google and a host of Chinese smartphone makers. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Apple Inc’s latest smartphones, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, have more expensive parts, but the company will still make significant profits because it raised prices for the devices, according to research firm IHS Markit.
A base model iPhone 8 with a 4.7in screen and 64 gigabytes (GB) of storage includes material costs of US$247.51 (RM1,040), up from US$237.94 (RM1,000) for the 32GB base model iPhone 7 from last year, an analysis by IHS found.
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