30% Apple

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/19/2011 10:10 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> The flip side is what manufacturers have to do to support multiple carr=
iers with a single device.  One option is to manufacture different models=
 of the same device.  Motorola does this with the RAZR and KRZR phones.  =
They're the same shell and mostly the same innards, but Verizon's models =
have a CDMA baseband while T-Mobile's have a GSM baseband.  The other opt=
ion is to use a multi-network baseband.  Apple is moving in this directio=
n with iPhone.  On the one hand, this makes for a higher manufacturing co=
st per unit; on the other hand, it means a single model line for the devi=
ce which should improve line production costs due to scale.
>
This is true.

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