When I did mine recently, I dropped the entire K-frame, box and engine on to the floor in around 45-60minutes, had the head off in another 10 minutes, surfaced both the flywheel and head's mating surfaces within the next 30 minutes (hey-ho flappy disk on the grinder! It's just an EG Civic with a d15b) and had the whole car assembled in an hour. The fact that I have access to a two post hoist cut my time down.
Now compared with the fact that I have destroyed two phones attempting to separate the adhesive rubbish that holds everything together inside them, I actually think changing the clutch on an EG is probably easier for the "average" user than changing a modern phone battery. A decent set of ratcheting spanners, a torque wrench and a Haynes manual is all you need, and you're not going to accidentally break anything.
It should also be noted that almost all cars "back in the day" (i.e. the 30's, 40's, etc) noted in their own user manuals how to check ring gaps etc with the expectations that owners would rebuild their own cars. How far we've come.
This is something that can become routine for practiced folks, or for people that are motivated to try the challenge, but there's a lot of opportunity for mishaps. In fact one way that many people get new phones is when Genius Bars screw-up the battery replacement-- so even pro's can't get it right 100% of the time.
If an end-user doesn't want to do their 5/5S/SE on their own, there are kiosks in nearly every mall that will do it for you in an hour or so.
Does it work with recent water-proof phones? I thought that there's some kind of glue to protect from water.
Still not a huge amount of money given the cost of the phone.
Air tools, acetone/ATF mix, and a propane torch are your friend at times.
Most poor people, middle class (what's left).
Although rental agreements, and section 8 leases prohibit working on any vechicle on said properties.
The average person should know how to repace at least the front disc brake pads. (Jack, torx, or 12-13 mm socket, c-champ to push fluid back into reservoir, and pads. 2 hour job.)
Yes, a manual clutch is another story, but if you have access to a garage, or lot, it's a weekend job.
Still it's two jacks, socket set, 3/8 torq wrench (most shops don't bother torque), flashlight, jack stands, clutch pack set, with includes plastic clutch alignment tool. It's a long weekend job. It goes quicker if you have a friend who's done one before, or a strong young person who's been under a vechicle at least a few times.
So yes, there are so many of us who just don't have the funds to hire people to do things.
I am one of those people. Hell, I still cut my hair with a vacuume cleaner?
Poor people are in a bind when trying to fix their jalopy because rental housing is so restrictive. (In other parts of the country, I imagine it's not so bad, but in the Bay Area landlords usually have 42 pages of cant's.)
My point is so many Americans just don't have the luxury of having someone else do the work anymore.
In my world, the repairability of a product is of utmost importance.
Then again, I am stumped over anyone spending $1000 for a dumb phone. Giving money to a company who builds their products overseas, and can't figure out what to do with their profits.
I do give them props for security though. I guess if I was important enough, iron clad security would be worth a lot more than a grand?
I will use my three Apple products until they die.
I will then rely on the surplus of perfecly good products discarded by the wealthy, or people whom think things will will always be ok.
Sorry about the rant. There's so many products that are unfeasible, or impossible to fix. It's like the government forgot The Sherman Anti-trust Act? I feel weird about bringing up the Act? Why? Because we are talking about a phone. A dumb phone? It's not so dumb when you can't get schematics on on the electronics in your boiler, or can't get repair codes off your vechicle.
How do you cut your hair with a vacuum cleaner?
You comparing apples and oranges. There is a difference between a task that genuinely requires labor (replacing brakes), and something that is artificially harder solely to discourage people from doing it, but could (and ought) to be a simple task that can be done 15 seconds.
Honda isn't intentionally making it more complex to get to your brake pads and rotors.
When my iPhone's leak, I'm out potentially $1500.
Of course, if you let your kid reassemble either your power train or your $1500 iPhone without supervision, the results will be exactly as you describe, but also entirely your own damn fault.
For that reason, I maintain precisely zero of them myself.
Apple devices (both laptops and phones) have a dramatically higher resale value than others, so that bit of your argument baffles me.
The reason why apple offers those services is because it has competition. If they figure out how to make third party repair intractable, you can expect a full reversion to the "screw you, buy a new device" state of affairs.
(Obviously telling the user that water proofing is compromised and that they need to retry attaching whatever they tried to attach or replace it.)
I did it in about 45 minutes the first time, and could do another in 20-30 minutes pretty easily.
It's now a 5-year old phone. 10 minutes labor per year is OK in my book.
How easy is it for end-users to replace the clutch in that off-warranty Civic? For that matter, how many people even change their own brakes (one of the easiest DIY tasks, IMO)?