From Foxconn to Nokia, and more

The exact figures are a bit of a commercial secret, but Apple reportedly makes between $150 to $250 per iPad that Chinese assembler Foxconn makes for it. Foxconn, on the other hand, makes just a small fraction of this once you take out the cost of the goods it imports as part of the assembly process. A chart by Bloomberg puts Apple’s margins at 30% in 2012 as compared to Foxconn’s 1.5%—while Apple’s margins doubled since the iPhone debuted in June 2007, Bloomberg says, Foxconn’s nearly halved.

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