You need minimal tools for most repairs

And independent electrics repairers have the tools for everything else

I'm talking about manufacturing

You don't need different tooling to make a product that lasts 5 or 10yrs to what you have now

Repairs? It's not a problem if you have the parts.

If the OEM doesn't want to produce parts for 10 years, third parties will

Provided you don't engage in protectionist practices like Apple

@Eccles there are differences when it comes to fabrication

(Among others)

Also, fear of reverse engineering

That fear is retarded - their parts are made by the Chinese in China

Nope

They are only assembled there

In the case of 80%+ of consumer electronics

they are

The rest is Korea Taiwan and Japan

The SoC and other important stuff are made mostly in the US, Japan, Taiwan and Korea

Perhaps you should ask yourself "What is the problem that is attempting to be solved?"

That way you can provide an alternative solution that doesn't wobble your nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKxnHu1kOeU

China barely has any advanced fabrication planya

bullshit

they have the largest number of semiconductor manufacturing in the world

and more is coming online every week

There's a list of fabrication plants

You'r egoing to find all the electric motors and batteries for cars will be made there, just assembled elsewhere

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants

The problem that needs to be solved is consumer electronics and cars being built with built-in obselecence, and with poor quality parts, such that they require repair, and that corporations deliberately block third-party repair by denying access to schematics and diagnostics, and deliberately code up parts such that even if you get a genuine replacement part, it won't work

Check what kind of plants there are in China.

And also, Microsoft "we're going to become a carbon-negative company", the same week in which they rendered 10-20% of the world's computers, laptops, and netbooks obsolete with one decision

"lol"

including mine <:smugon:512048583806025739>

sargon posted a video reacting to twitter salt. all of the shit I posted in this channel earlier.

So ask yourself this: Why would it be any easier for ICs to be reverse engineered if people could just buy them, so now, when they can just take one off a finished product?

did Carl-senpai notice us

?

No, Miku, he's in London

They are a monopoly, they can allow themselves to do so (annoyingly).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L_ECsbmxdc

Sneaky suspicion the video was recorded at PJW's house

@Eccles just like why there were knock offs of everything from China