The Cost of Modularity

When you make something modular and longer lasting You're either going to go out of business or you need to charge people more money for it. That chases you up the price scale until all of a sudden you're like I wanted to get this so I didn't have to buy a new laptop But now this one costs twice as much as a new Macbook Pro. And then soon that happens everything else same thing with phones used to be able to swap the phones in the back of your cell Phones love to do a random battery I can put a new one or whatever Cell phones stopped doing that first they made it harder to do it Then they just stopped doing it entirely just like apple did

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