[Rinzler89]

Your parent should really check out the BOM on his iPhone or MacBook before complaining about $270 being "monstrously expensive" hardware. And all those gadgets benefit from high volume discounts on parts, decades of sunk R&D costs and the volume economies of scale, assembled by sweatshop workers, not niche low volume production runs for enthusiasts like this one.

The price of Pizza at your local non-fast-food restaurant is also significantly higher than that of the bulk raw ingredients it's made of. Now also try adding the R&D costs of inventing the Pizza to that see where that gets you.

[voidUpdate]

she doesn't have an iPhone or a MacBook because I do think they're expensive. I buy my phones used on eBay and cringe if they cost more than £50

[UncleEntity]

> I buy my phones used on eBay and cringe if they cost more than £50

I'm with you on this one, sister.

Don't even get me started on the kid down the street selling lemonade...

[Rinzler89]

How you feel about your SO's phone pricing is besides the point.

The point was that you don't understand the distinction between the retail price of a product and raw BOM costs.

Please read the comments here trying to educate you.

[voidUpdate]

what do you mean about my SO? I was referring to myself

[Rinzler89]

Sorry but you did refer to yourself at the third person as "she", so how was anyone supposed to know?

[voidUpdate]

I was correcting "his iPhone or MacBook"

[YeGoblynQueenne]

I still don't get it. Everyone here is male. Right?