Who knows. Unless there is an official apple release on how much it costs to make an iphone what number is to be believed. Course they could be paying triple overtime for their factories to produce enough for Xmas.
http://www.zdnet.com/analyst-iphone-...ns-7000007961/
According to Piper Jaffray's analyst Gene Munster's nightly checks on 100 Apple Stores, stock levels have shown dramatic improvements over the past couple of weeks.
This is more than likely down to the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology giant throwing significant amounts of money and resources at the problem to make sure there are enough iPhones for all the good little girls and boys this holiday season.
Apple could also be sacrificing gross profits in the short term in order to gain a foothold in the enterprise and education markets given that Hargreaves bought up the issue of "volume sales of iPad" driving lower gross. Apple's massive iOS profits have so far been primarily driven by consumer adoption of the iPhone and iPad.