I heard on NPR that there are techs starting "garage" repair shops
for IPODs.
Apple is charging around $300.00 for out of warranty repair.
A new career field has emerged!
David A. Douthit
Manager
LoCan LLC
On Sep 1, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Chuck Dolci wrote:
> Phil, et alia;
>
> Good questions, but let me pose my own.
>
> What would happen if we developed a new version of a product that does
> twice the work with half the energy consumption of the current
> product?
> Do we wait a year or two before we introduce it?
>
> I am not sure how one "exhausts" cheap labor. Are we working them
> harder so they get really tired at the end of the day or are we
> working
> them to death. Or is it that, thanks to those western companies that
> exploited them for all those years, they are the beneficiaries of a
> higher standard of living and higher wages and therefore cease to be
> "cheap labor"?
>
> When we have exhausted, by whatever means, the cheap labor then we are
> left with the more expensive labor which will drive up the costs
> of new
> products. Problem with that is that the affluent will still be
> able to
> buy the newer, more expensive and more efficient product because they
> can make that initial investment immediately and start to enjoy the
> efficiencies of the new product while the poor will be forced to use
> the older, less efficient (and likely more expensive to operate) old
> product.
>
> I have often debated with myself if poor people merely dislike the
> styling of the new hybrids and the other, new fuel efficient cars
> ( like
> the Prius) and just prefer driving twenty year old clunkers that get
> terrible mileage. De gustibus non disbutandum est. Or maybe they
> would
> prefer to buy a newer, more efficient car and save money on gas but
> just
> can't afford the initial investment. I don't know, there is
> certainly a
> lot of charm in some of those twenty year old smokers.
>
> Chuck D.
>
>
>
> Phil Nutting wrote:
>
>> We truly have become a "throw-away" society.
>>
>> It pains my "old Yankee thrift" father to buy a calculator for $2.95
>> have the battery die and find that the replacement battery costs
>> $3.95.
>>
>> What would happen if we didn't bring out new models every 2 months
>> and
>> instead brought them out once a year with all the bugs worked out
>> and a
>> very useful and reliable product?
>>
>> What happens when we have exhausted the cheap labor in the third
>> world
>> countries? We will no longer be able to drive the costs down to
>> make the
>> throw-away products.
>>
>> Oops... Just fell off my soap box! Back to work.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joe Fjelstad
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:54 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [LF] Top 5 items to not repair... NTC
>>
>> SmartMoney.com just released a list titled:
>>
>> "Top 5 Products You Should Never Repair"
>>
>> 1) Computers
>> 2) Digital Cameras
>> 3) MP3 players
>> 4) Microwave Ovens
>> 5) Cell Phones
>>
>> _http://money.aol.com/top5/general/things-not-to-repair_
>> (http://money.aol.com/top5/general/things-not-to-repair)
>>
>>
>> The implications are.... interesting
>>
>> Joe
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