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Apple iPhone 4 Recall Could Cost $900 Million

Apparently if Apple were forced to issue a recall of the iPhone 4 due to its antenna problem it could ultimately cost the company a hefty $900 million says one analyst.

Paul McDougall of Information Week reports that Mika Abramsky of RBC Capital Markets has stated that Apple at a minimum may face “a broad repair scenario” with their new iPhone 4 and maybe a total recall of the device.

Apparently Abramsky said that the repair scenario could “shave $900 million of Apple’s bottom line”, repairing all iPhone 4 units in the field would cost $300 million while supplying Bumper cases would cost Apple $45 million.

Shaw Wu, analyst for Kaufman Bros on Tuesday said the iPhone 4 antenna problem could impact on Apple’s earnings and said in his note, “Should this antenna issue become a bigger deal, there could be a risk to our as well as consensus estimates.”

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3 thoughts on “Apple iPhone 4 Recall Could Cost $900 Million”

  1. Stan says:

    it would not cost apple 45 million to give everyone free bumpers i mean apple makes the bumpers for less then 50 cents in china and ships it here with a hefty $29 price tag. Apple is just a stingy company focused on greed.

  2. Wise Man says:

    i don’t know what is really the size of this technical issue. I’m wondering if the media is making this issue a big balloon or it’s really an issue.

    I remember that SonyEricsson with the release of P910 had similar problem, i was not able to put the mobile in a case, and it used to get disconnected all the time. No one cared at all. N97 had lots of problems more than the pluses; I haven’t seen any media focus on touch screen, connection, call drop out, battery, applications etc.

    Apart from Media is there really users experience problems? Because generally we do not trust the media, mostly they are illiterate people who don’t know much about technology; generally they use these techniques to blackmail manufacturers to force them to advertise with them.

    90% of these Medias they are blind copiers who do not even try to test the technology in their workshops to provide some real critics, they just use any source online perhaps a kid feedback and put it in their headlines and get away with it as always.

    We deserve better critics and better media to cover this topic.

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