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It's a labor cost. As hardware becomes more all-in-one, your cost of labor for knowledge of desoldering a single piece becomes more and more. Noone wants 'rep
by WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
It's a labor cost.
As hardware becomes more all-in-one, your cost of labor for knowledge of desoldering a single piece becomes more and more.
Noone wants 'repaired goods' in the US.
- Scoundreller 7y agoSort of. I feel like it’s a technical education thing. The fellow in Shenzhen is probably getting paid hundreds of dollars per month. (Just a guess, I know SZ is expensive, but has lots of labour coming from outer lying areas). Even if it cost 10x labour for the procedure of turning a 16gb iPhone into a 128gb, it would be worth it. But I don’t think you could train the average Western worker to become a BGA solder worker and reflasher and have them work for you for more than 6 months before racing to a higher paying job.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoThat's tragic, ignorance costs a lot more than education in the long run
- penagwin 7y agoThis. I worked at a small cell phone repair store. We could replace lots of parts in say an iPhone 7, but nearly no soldering. Parts are relatively cheap (lcd might be 35$ for the 7 when I was there) - and we were only paid up to 12/14$ an hour (that's nearing McDonald's level). There is little proper education for something like BGA soldering, and if there is then you're more likely to get a job as an engineer.