The problem is not only in electronics. Nobody is sewing. My mother wanted to redo her curtains. The materials cost more than a new curtain, and is already "ready". This is because there is nobody sewing, so there is no market, so high prices due to low volume.
I dropped my camera, the lens zoom (when turned on, the lens comes out) died. Repair was 50 euro more expensive than a new camera.
Bike pumps have a rubber seal, which, due to up/down motion degrades in about 10 years of use. The rest is metal and is ok. It's impossible to find rubber seals. Had to buy a new pump.
The problem is not only in the "do not repair", where all screws are "special" (like triangular screws) and require special screwdrivers to service, but also in the consumer's pursuit to buy a new model. So to have a part of a car, you also need to say which year it was build, or you get something different.
So the former is phonemakers that comes with a new build phone, all new parts, reaps the early profits, and does leave very little room for the aftermarket people that repair and sell components, because one month later (if they could, by law they need to support 2-3 years, but in their unsigned buyers contract it says 1 year) they are selling the next model and do not support the old one (not even software updates), while others actually sell that small thingy coil more than 10 years later.
Even for with the Pyra I do not know how to call the screw they use to hold the back together, by diameter, length, tilt and distance.
So some want to go to a model where you own nothing and lease/hire everything. Clothing, bed, kitchen, fridge. To be profitable, it means that the fridge is made out of standard components, and will always look the same (kinda like in the sovjet time). Bikes will all have standard components, or at least the frame. So I expect that the color will change a lot in order to make products feel "different".
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