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Say a trip to the repair shop comes with an inconvenience and price margin that discourages 80% of battery replacements of occurring. This throws phones in land
by gausswho 2y ago
Say a trip to the repair shop comes with an inconvenience and price margin that discourages 80% of battery replacements of occurring. This throws phones in landfills before they need to be there.
You could argue that many more phones die this way than ones that do from exposure to water or fine sand. If so, a corollary could argue that the onus should be on those who need such features to rely on the aftermarket for them, for the sake of both the consumer and the health of the planet.
- constantcrying 2y agoI don't want every single phone to be worse just because people are too lazy to go to a repair shop. Inevitably not glueing phones shut will lead to an increase in waste as other mechanisms will fail more often.
- rlpb 2y agoIf all that's needed to those 80% of prematurely discarded phones is a repair shop battery replacement then they would retain considerable value and a secondary market for them should develop. You can't stop people from throwing money away, but that's about the biggest incentive that can exist to change behaviour.