[paulmd]

This has nothing to do with apple in particular, it’s cheaper to buy a new Samsung than to repair your old one too. Literally the entire point of the post was discussing the problems inherent to n=1 repair vs the economies of scale provided by mass manufacturing or board level repair.

[pzo]

I disagree, I repaired in the past my old iphone se cheaply (replacing battery) or samsung sg2 (broken usb) and sg4 (broken camera). I could buy components either locally or cheap from aliexpress. In south east asia many wizards can even fix your macbook and even upgrade ram, ssd as a bonus.

Repair can be cheap in the same way as car repair can be cheap. Currently iphone repair cannot be cheap because of their DRM.

You mentioned before that cheap repair cannot be done because of more expensive labour. But I mentioned that authorised repair shops quotes me ~300euro for repair and apple for just ordering single component wanna charge me ~280usd - it's obvious they just price component so expensive to make it not worth making repair yourself.