What you are saying doesn't add up...
Assumption 1 : no company will give customers huge amounts of money on every phone sold if any
What are you talking about? Company giving money to customers on phones sold?
Now you are saying iPhone tech 'costs' 1000 usd... If the iPhone tech is not unique in any way, which it isn't based on 1 forbes article as it is long overdue... Why are we taking about forbes articles as noble prize white papers btw?
Uhhh the iPhone 8 is rumored to have an OLED panel, 3D touch and a fingerprint scanner under the screen and there might be even more undisclosed tech under the hood, not to mention the camera improvements.
This information is constantly leaked out and Forbes is a very reputable source, Not sure again, what you're trying to say.
this means that other companies have tech that costs them 1000 usd... Since such tech phones are available for even 300 or lesser in usd... It means along with the conservative assumption that either Apple is stupid to. Buy way overpriced tech or they are just brainwashing millions to believe the cost of their tech is a 1000 bucks
This is Apple we're talking about here, they like to think of themselves as the pioneers of some "groundbreaking" technologies in their devices when they bring them to the market.
What they actually do is, they bring the same technologies as other companies like Google Samsung, Sony, Motorola etc. who have crudely implemented them in their devices.
Apple brings it to the market in a more refined and mainstream way. At least they like to think that and it's pretty much how the Apple universe has thrived and succeeded.
Apple nor its fans care if these new technologies were brought by other companies to the market FIRST! They like to do things their own way, design and manufacture components in-house, that's why Apple constantly patents everything they make. They sued Samsung asking for billions and Samsung counter-sued, this is normal when patent technologies overlap and are infringed upon all the time.
Apple's profit margins are huge, unlike other phone manufactures, They always makes a profit on every device sold, whereas Samsung or Motorola or even Google will be willing to take a loss on selling each device because they don't sell as fast and well as Apple's products.
And btw the "Trillion Dollar Company" tag is nothing but market valuation or market cap of Apple's future, it's still not hit that mark yet, it's like the stock market, sure the sensex today is at 31k but when it crashes its gonna wipe out huge amounts of wealth that was created out of thin air. The same thing applies to Apple's stock.
The only and really impressive thing is how much in Cash reserves Apple has, they could buy Sony or even Microsoft with amount of money they have in the bank. Now that's impressive.
A company like that didn't get rich by selling products on small margins.
And this all is not a matter of new information. It's all a simple google search.
If You ask "why or how does apple have so much popularity and influence?" that question is really hard to answer...
Because then you've to deal with brand awareness, consumer behaviour and trends and all of that marketing and research mumbo jumbo, which we rather not talk about, cause it's boring as fuk.
Until that 10 million'th customer buys!
