Could you elaborate on how much it actually does cost to produce a prototype in China? Further, how about a finished and consumer-ready product? I understand that what you are alluding to is a cornerstone of the modern economy, but I find it difficult to believe that the affects of manufacturing costs are essentially null on a small firm from Singapore.
Like I mentioned above, it depends on how cutting edge your product is. I can't give you any specifics but you can try contacting a Chinese supplier through Alibaba.com they will be able to give you a rough idea. I know from the downvotes I've received that I won't be wasting more time trying to convince people about their misconceptions.
As a rule of thumb, the more exotic and cutting edge your product is, the more savings you will get from mass production obviously. The JooJoo/Crunchpad is not unusual. From what I've read, it's a commodity touchscreen attached to an Intel Atom motherboard.
If your product is unsellable due to a small difference in the quantity you are able to sell, you have bigger things to worry about: namely the quality of your product. There's a reason why the cost of new products such as consoles or cpus are sky high in the beginning. Why should your company be any different?
I don't have the exact data for an item like the crunchpad/joojoo, but for nearly everything I bothered checking, the price differences are quite often less than 25%.
Regardless of exactly how much this margin is, it is not wise for anyone to be straddling the fine line between the maximum consumers are willing to pay and the minimum a factory is willing to charge.
I leave it as an exercise to the doubters here to investigate by themselves. I am done wasting my time finding specifics just to further an argument on the internet.
