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When the repair business dies...

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leonattpcs

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Just been reading another thread about looking for other services to offer for "when he repair business dies". I am just interested to hear what other people thin about "when he repair business dies"
Do you think it will? If so, when will that possibly be? Personally I think it will, even though that is what I do for a living and have raised my business over the last 6 years on the back of device repair it probably will and I will go do something else. I suppose if you think about it, the repair business will die. Areas within the repair business are dying, for example the movie Louis made about screen repair being a dying business. I agree completely that it is, just the same as repairs of older devices die out and so may the repair business die.
 
RavetcoFX

RavetcoFX

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I can already smell a future where repairing motherboards is gone, they'll start making flexible flat logic boards that are waterproof, or maybe seal the whole board in epoxy, who knows :/
 
larossmann

larossmann

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Of course. All things die. Remember when Ludwig invented the bass drum pedal? They put 50% of the world's drummers out of work!
  1. Where are the beeper repair people?
  2. Where are the VCR repair people?
  3. Where are the DVD player repair people?
What makes this an industry is the combined liquid sensitivity of Apple products with the high cost of the machines. As costs come down, and liquidproofing goes up, they will fail much less, and when they do they will not be worth fixing.

If you are in a position to receive paying clients, aka
  1. You're in an area where people want/need your services.
  2. You market yourself properly.
  3. You have the mental capability to utilize analytical thinking to learn and solve problems.
then there's great money in doing this over the next few years, I would say.

But in 2020, no... maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I don't think this is what I'm going to be doing in 2020.
 
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Mac-N-Sauce

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The problem with computers, phones, etc that are water/bullet proof is that Samsung/Apple will lose there continuing revenue streams. They already have phone replacement cycles at 1 year or less. If they make them too "unbreakable" who will buy the new ones? We are consumers, Apples prices haven't really dropped. Sales have, so they are trying to figure out the next gadgets for us to buy and spend way too much money on. Apple last year i think when to a "Repairability" Model at the Apple stores. Now, they just replace stuff, they do not fix it, but it has created long wait times to even get appointments. I think that creates a niche market for the rest of us. We always have to figure out where we fit in the food chain. The Macbook pro's still start at $1300.00 and each model revision just gets "upgraded features" and they seem to keep price increases basically flat. It will be a very long time before Apple will never see their products as throw aways. They will have to maintain price erosion or they might as well be every other PC maker.

Just a thought!
 
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