well if you are going to listen to random people who say Apple makes products for money, and not to Jony Ive when he says the revenue is secondary in their intentions, then there is clearly something wrong in how you process information
Im not even asking you to believe it, but just arguing that some non specific people saying Apple is a greedy corporation, as against, the creator of these products saying, no, we tried that and it didn't work for us is something I cannot understand.
If anyone else could think like Jony Ive, they would.
It seems like he is slowly and steadily, without compromise and with careful consideration, training iOS users to use the devices of the future, everyone else just make a line up of revolutionary gadgets every year. It's a pleasure to use these devices, if you don't want to understand, I cannot help you.
PS I checked up on your dollar figures also
they are estimates based on tear downs and
It should be noted that an unlocked 64GB iPhone 6s has an initial retail price of $749. It doesn’t mean that Apple is saving about $500 on each iPhone as there are manufacturing, distribution as well as promotional costs as well.
Here's How Much it Costs Apple to Build New iPhone 6s