You realize the actual cost of the phone was built into your monthly phone bill, right? Wholesale cost to the carrier that they pass onto you is about $550/unit.
Of course I do, but I also know they sell it to me retail. . . but so is the retail cost of any other new phone on a plan. . . and the base plan is the same whether the phone you select is $755 (my actual out the door retail price for an iPhone 6 with 64GB), $699 for a Samsung, $649 iPhone 6 16GB Smartphone, $499.(iPhone 5s), or $249 to $399 for a more limited Android smartphones, or $199 for a dumb feature phone. . . You pay for it. TANSTAAFL. Or in this case, TANSTAAFSP, or TANSTAAFiP!