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It is generally cheaper just to hand out a new device than to have a skilled repairman to look at something, diagnose and think about if something can be fixed, if he has the right parts etc. and for this person to be even capable of doing what the robots in the manufacturing line are capable of doing in terms of assembling parts and hope that the fix actually fixes the device. It's the unfortunate side effect of miniaturization.