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It needs to be explicitly shown how and why it increases costs because if anything it feels like the opposite to me, especially when companies use proprietary p
by azemetre 2y ago
It needs to be explicitly shown how and why it increases costs because if anything it feels like the opposite to me, especially when companies use proprietary pieces and hiding schematics rather than open standards and common configurations.
- tcfhgj 2y agofewer sold products, less economy of scale, more cost
- Retric 2y agoComponents not just products have economies of scale. Dell is currently better off buying the same RAM etc used by other computer manufacturers.
- seanw444 2y agoThis, and also, so what if the price of the end product goes up? You wouldn't feel the need to buy a new phone so often if it was more sensible to repair them, which would very likely more than make up for the price increase.
- tcfhgj 2y agounlikely: people cost much more (repairing vs automated manufacturing) second: even if it may make up for it, the manufacturers profits still will be reduced
- tcfhgj 2y agomore products -> more components replacing some components means fewer components sold overall, because whole products 'replace' just all components
- Retric 2y agoThat’s something of a broken window fallacy here. Producing fewer parts while having more working devices is a net win for the economy. Economies of scale don’t mean things are free. The marginal cost of each transistor is still greater than zero even though where producing what 10^20 ish of them per year.
- tcfhgj 2y agowhile you see a net win for the economy, I see a smaller GDP and a bad conclusion after the business year when people start repairing their devices instead of throwing them away and buying new. Idk where I implied zero cost of things anywhere?
- azemetre 2y agoThat's not an explicit reason. You're acting like they are making custom parts for everything and not buying the same widget as everyone else on the manufacturing line.