Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by BoorishBears on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:51PM
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I mean these businesses already exist and make enough money to support people.
Most places I've lived had a shop or two where someone would repair things like logic boards for cheap, using grey market parts.
You don't need 1-2 million a year to keep the lights on, there's people doing this stuff in their garages.
I wasn't suggesting it did matter in regards to his mail-in business. Someone else mentioned that living in a large city makes it easier to maintain a high volume of work locally.
>Apple will charge you $475 to replace a motherboard rather that has a blow 40 cent capacitor on a MBP.
This is true. My point was that when a large computer repair shop run by arguably the most famous person in the electronics repair industry is only attracting enough work to have an annual revenue of 1-2 million a year, it could be entirely possible that a regular, non-famous person in a smaller electronics business might struggle to stay busy enough to earn enough of a living, even if certain repairs like the one you described are very profitable on their own.