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Actually, comparing exchangeable mechanical gears to a transistors on silicon die or pixels is a bit ridiculous.
by rini17 6y ago
Actually, comparing exchangeable mechanical gears to a transistors on silicon die or pixels is a bit ridiculous.
- smichel17 6y agoI'd look at the comparison more like: a gear is a component (eg, cpu). If it breaks, it breaks and is not expected to be repairable, but that component should be replaceable; you shouldn't have to throw away the whole watch just because one gear broke.
- jameshart 6y agoBut a replacement gear can be manufactured out of commodity materials using standard tools and a bunch of esoteric skills. A replacement LCD display is never going to be something a skilled worker can recreate from scratch. Your best case is that you are able to salvage matching parts from another instance of the same device - so if you have one laptop with a broken screen and another with a busted CPU you can cannibalize parts to make a single working machine.