if you’ve been following iPhones for a while, you may’ve noticed a trend. Because back in 2012, the brand new iPhone 5 started at $200. While today, the current flagship iPhone starts at $1,000. So what happened in the last few years that made iPhones costs $800 more than they did just six years ago? Well we’re going to dig into the numbers now and find out.

So for the sake of this video, we’re going to be comparing the base model flagship iPhone 5 released back in 2012, and the 64GB iPhone X from 2017. I chose last year’s model just because it’s close enough to this year’s iPhone XS, but there’s more data on sales, materials, components, and a year’s worth of insight on how the phone is manufactured.