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>> When repair labor costs more than automated production.. When companies deliberately build products in unrepairable ways then repair labor costs more than a
by zug_zug 6y ago
>> When repair labor costs more than automated production..
When companies deliberately build products in unrepairable ways then repair labor costs more than automated production.
Imagine if mac butterfly keyboards were replaceable. Or for example I recently fixed my dad's washing machine, but it took a couple hours of labor to replace the pump because you had to remove about 4 other things to get to it (when they could have just made a door on the side/bottom.
It's sort of like if you had to spend an hour disassembling your case to swap the ram in your machine.
- cbmuser 6y ago> When companies deliberately build products in unrepairable ways then repair labor costs more than automated production. They don’t. They optimize for production costs, not repairability, that’s all. And glueing 100,000 iPhones together is faster and cheaper than screwing them together.
- zug_zug 6y ago> They don’t. "With consumer electronics becoming increasingly more complex, many electronics manufacturers have instituted systems whereby the only means to repair a device or obtain repair parts would be through one of their authorized vendors or original equipment manufacturers (OEM). " [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics_right_to_repair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics_right_to_repair