It should not be a surprise. A lot of electronics have largely been disposable for decades now, particularly when you get the cheap stuff such that it's not worth the cost of fixing.
As long as the warranty is long enough to get you past the infant mortality stage, it should be fine.
I saw some story about the cost of making a repair on a budget TV. Accounting for shipping costs both ways, the cost of the parts and labor, it's not far from the cost of a new set.
It's incredibly wasteful, but when we're talking about a product made as much as into the millions of units using very cheap labor, cheap parts and cheap design in a developing country, it's tough to justify the cost of repair labor in a developed country.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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It should not be a surprise. A lot of electronics have largely been disposable for decades now, particularly when you get the cheap stuff such that it's not worth the cost of fixing.
As long as the warranty is long enough to get you past the infant mortality stage, it should be fine.
I saw some story about the cost of making a repair on a budget TV. Accounting for shipping costs both ways, the cost of the parts and labor, it's not far from the cost of a new set.
It's incredibly wasteful, but when we're talking about a product made as much as into the millions of units using very cheap labor, cheap parts and cheap design in a developing country, it's tough to justify the cost of repair labor in a developed country.