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Two sides of the same coin. Hurting one hurts the other, both help improve device longevity, and both help encourage a more open and modular design.
by Nullabillity 4y ago
Two sides of the same coin. Hurting one hurts the other, both help improve device longevity, and both help encourage a more open and modular design.
- dangus 4y agoI think they're still separate issues in specific cases. For example, if you made a motherboard with user-removable capacitors, that would not enable any significant upgradability, only repairability. Another situation: If you have a $100 device and it has a major component that takes up most of the overall device cost (let's say, $80), making that $80 component modular/removable/replaceable doesn't aid repairability all that much. If that component fails, my entire device is "totaled."