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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
In article , Jonathan N. Little
wrote: An additional cost that many may not be aware of is that national auto part chains like Auto Zone or Advance are now charging the 66% mechanic's markup on parts. If a mechanic charges you $100 in parts it's really $60 + a $40 scam labor charge. Now many auto parts stores are charging the same $100. I think that started with Toyota official parts, but it's extended to aftermarket dealers. I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. there *are* legitimate places where genuine apple parts can be purchased. there are also aftermarket parts that work, which like any aftermarket part, is sometimes better than oem and sometimes not. genuine nikon, canon, olympus, etc. parts aren't found at a 'wholesale camera store' either. you might find them at an authorized camera repair shop, but they probably won't sell you just the part if you don't also have them do the repair. if they're not factory authorized, they likely will not be able to get the parts at all, and the chances are extremely high that there are no aftermarket parts. genuine toyota, ford, etc., parts won't be found at the local autoparts store. you have to go to the dealer for that. autoparts stores usually have aftermarket parts that are compatible, but not necessarily the same quality. some parts have no aftermarket version. |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
In article , Brian
Gregory wrote: it's not immediately obvious, but it's not that hard for those who might choose to do so. Out of interest, how is it done, roughly? how is what done? you snipped too much. |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
In article , Rene Lamontagne
wrote: you're also ignoring the value of your time. My free hobby time is not vaued hobby is exactly what it is. you do realize that not everyone has the same interest in the same hobbies you do, right? So? the so is that different people choose to do different things and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. saving $150 for what is generally a 1-2 day job is barely minimum wage. Hah, 1 or 2 days shows how little you know, took about 5 hours that depends on the vehicle. being an expert mechanic, you must realize that some vehicles are more involved than others, right? No ****! apparently not. otherwise you'd realize that some vehicles can be a 1-2 day ordeal, possibly even longer if there's an unexpected problem. when i had the timing chain replaced on my vehicle, it took my mechanic two days because a lot of other stuff had to come out before he could get to the engine, and then it all had go back in afterwards. holds true for any vehicle. what you fail to grasp is that it *varies* by quite a bit. but ignoring that, even at 5 hours, saving $150 is a measly $30/hr. you clearly work for cheap. It's not only the money, it's a great feeling working with your family members your initial claim was about how much money you could save (even going so far asto itemize each amount), not having a family experience. you're neglecting the cost of the tools, parts availability and time. I have all the tools including a 6x36 Engine metal turning lathe, Milling machine, drill press, power hacksaw and all the handtools I need. Parts I buy as required. you didn't get all of that for free. Of course not, I acquired them over time, they don,t give those things away at your local bazzar. sometimes they do. swap meets are a great place to get a wide variety of tools for cheap, sometimes even for free. unfortunately, due to the pandemic, there won't be any swap meets for a while, even though they're usually outdoors, probably not until next year... |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junkOS
nospam wrote:
swap meets are a great place to get a wide variety of tools for cheap, sometimes even for free. What tools that are worth having have you got for free at a swap meet? Tools are generally less expensive than they have ever been, since we have been making them in China. There's no reason to be cheap about it...if your time is worth anything, just buy the tools you need. That doesn't mean you have to pass them up at the flea market. |
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nospam wrote:
Jonathan N. Little wrote: 123456789 wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
In article , 123456789
wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... not in the 1950s, they didn't, and stores like that are long gone now. |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... not in the 1950s, they didn't, and stores like that are long gone now. Course not. My last line about Apple in the 50's was obviously tongue in cheek. I had hoped everyone would chuckle a bit at it, but I guess I needed a winky for some. You really need to try and loosen up a bit... |
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On Tue, 07 Jul 2020 08:35:20 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , 123456789 wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... not in the 1950s, they didn't, and stores like that are long gone now. There are many in the UK. -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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123456789 wrote:
nospam wrote: 123456789 wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... not in the 1950s, they didn't, and stores like that are long gone now. Course not. My last line about Apple in the 50's was obviously tongue in cheek. I had hoped everyone would chuckle a bit at it, but I guess I needed a winky for some. You really need to try and loosen up a bit... Mine was analogy was 50-60's could get supply to repair vs now Apple's stand against Right to Repair. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Chris" wrote | With cars being computers on wheels nowadays most mechanics don't know how | they work either. Especially non-ICE ones. They plug in a laptop with | diagnostic software and fix whatever the s/ware tells them to. Rinse and | repeat until the car works again. | I bought one of those error report gizmos. $50. Works well. The trouble is that all the errors are from things that didn't even exist a few years earlier. On my last truck I had to replace two exhaust pipe sensors. Exhaust pipe sensors?! Yep. That's why cars don't have a manual choke anymore. The engine management system is continually tuning the engine so needs sensors. I've had one fail recently and the car sounded really rough until it was replaced. |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
nospam wrote:
In article , 123456789 wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... not in the 1950s, they didn't, and stores like that are long gone now. Grainger should have everything you need, no? https://www.grainger.com/search?sear...rical+suppl y |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
123456789 wrote: nospam wrote: 123456789 wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... not in the 1950s, they didn't, and stores like that are long gone now. Course not. My last line about Apple in the 50's was obviously tongue in cheek. I had hoped everyone would chuckle a bit at it, but I guess I needed a winky for some. You really need to try and loosen up a bit... Mine was analogy was 50-60's could get supply to repair vs now Apple's stand against Right to Repair. Comparing high-end micro electronics of the 2020s with the early transistor/ late tube era of 70 years ago is ridiculous. That's like comparing the shuttle era nasa with the wooden Sopwith Camel. |
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Chris wrote:
Comparing high-end micro electronics of the 2020s with the early transistor/ late tube era of 70 years ago is ridiculous. That's like comparing the shuttle era nasa with the wooden Sopwith Camel. No it is about policy. If power connector, video cable, ram goes bad on a PC you can get the part and fix it, not so with Apple by policy and design... In the old days regardless of the technology difference parts were available to fix stuff. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
123456789 wrote: nospam wrote: 123456789 wrote: I worked in a TV repair shop in the 50's. The retail markup on tubes was 100%. So if we paid $3, the customer was charged $6. If someone wanted to buy a tube at the local wholesale electronics store to fix his own TV he was charged the full $6 unless he could show a business license. Nothing ever really changes (much)... Except Apple won't let the local wholesale electronics store to sell the "tube" [full stop] false. genuine apple parts are available, although not necessarily at a 'wholesale electronics store', whatever that supposedly is. The wholesale electronics stores of the 50's in my area were just that. They sold all kinds electronic parts: Tubes, resistors, capacitors, flyback transformers, picture tubes, yokes, filament transformers, rotary tuners, potentiometers, power supply chokes, conical antennas, 300 ohm twin lead, 6AU6's, 6L6's, etc etc. Also some ham parts like the 6146's in my finals. Great place to browse. But you had to pay retail unless you had a business license thus it was a wholesale store. And Jon is right, they didn't sell genuine Apple parts... not in the 1950s, they didn't, and stores like that are long gone now. Course not. My last line about Apple in the 50's was obviously tongue in cheek. I had hoped everyone would chuckle a bit at it, but I guess I needed a winky for some. You really need to try and loosen up a bit... Mine was analogy was 50-60's could get supply to repair vs now Apple's stand against Right to Repair. I got your Apple analogy fishhook. And it seems you caught a few. Arlen's better at it though... |
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Apple Monopoly? Was: Why is Microsoft wasting time on this junk OS
In article , Jonathan N. Little
wrote: Comparing high-end micro electronics of the 2020s with the early transistor/ late tube era of 70 years ago is ridiculous. That's like comparing the shuttle era nasa with the wooden Sopwith Camel. No it is about policy. If power connector, video cable, ram goes bad on a PC you can get the part and fix it, not so with Apple by policy and design... false. In the old days regardless of the technology difference parts were available to fix stuff. they still are. |
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