Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it
by passivate on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:34PM
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>Manufacturing billions of them is a big deal and anything making them more difficult to manufacture affects volumes.
Sorry, but the environment comes first. They'll will just have to deal with it. This problem is imminently solvable, and tractable. We put a man on the moon, we can figure out how to automate putting on a few screws and a gasket as is done with watches and other commonplace items. Or they can come up with another modular design that is still repairable. We shouldn't put an artificial limit or human creativity and ingenuity.
Worldwide car sales are tens of millions per year. Smartphone sales are hundreds of millions per quarter.
So not only are phones orders of magnitude smaller than cars there's two orders of magnitude more manufactured every year.
You can disagree with me all you want but it doesn't change the fact of those scales. Phones don't just pop out of a mold or an extruder. Manufacturing billions of them is a big deal and anything making them more difficult to manufacture affects volumes.