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Places like Ghaffar Market exist in most Asian cities. In fact, Delhi has another at Nehru Place
by srvmshr 4y ago
Places like Ghaffar Market exist in most Asian cities. In fact, Delhi has another at Nehru Place
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoMy point is, if people like these can repair your phone in 1/50 the cost of a "genuine apple repair" or even a "trusted third party repair" guy, why do you care about "genuine" because the lines are blurry at that point. Sure you can spend $200 to repair your $1000 iphone screen from apple but you know if you take to the ghaffar market, they will charge you what, $30 if that. Sure there will be quality issues but what about if your phone costs $200 and the "official" screen repair is 50% of that but sketchy place rate is like $10? The point is about Choice. i know if i break my cheap android, i can get it repaired at a cheap price and continue using it or else i had to go to "official" shop and they would quote me 60% of the price of a new device into forcing me to buy a new thing. Thats bad
- srvmshr 4y agoGetting arm twisted to buy is a bad thing of course. The core concern is not the availability of talent to do this but the supply chain of genuine parts, and authentication of successful repair thereafter. iFixit already provides several kits and could theoretically provide iPhone kits too - but if you are eventually forced to pay Apple a premium to validate that repair, then the repair pipeline goes waste.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoyeah. the "talent" part gets perfected in the market? right? i mean if you are a repair guy and your work isnt appreciated by your customers, you either have to get better or close shop. these small repair people that are everywhere in asia simply improve their skills with each device so there is that