For the techies amongst us - ripped from another FB group page I admin called Rochester New York Watchdog Association - RnyWA: RnyWA Alert: Wireless shop repair owners - like the old franchised Motorola, GE and Uniden radio shops made fortunes repairing and installing two-way radios and early transportable car phones - so much so that the manufacturers like Motorola noticed the franchise owners were making more money than they were on the items. Enter the throw away mobile radio and solid state transmitters. The drill became if it doesnt work - overnite it to us and well overnight back your replacement. Wireless shops became shipping centers and individual customer-based install/repair work orders were replaced with volume replacements and expanded gross customers sales and wholesale distribution. And the average customer never knew what was going on inside the box - he just knew that when it stopped working theyd replace it under the warranty or the maintenance agreement. PS: Why is it the Brits always run these kind of stories? Young people in Britain have become a lost generation who can no longer mend gadgets and appliances because they have grown up in a disposable world, the professor giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures has warned. Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong. Unlike previous generations who would ‘make do and mend’ now young people will just chuck out their faulty appliances and buy new ones. telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11298927/Young-people-are-lost-generation-who-can-no-longer-fix-gadgets-warns-professor.html
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:40:15 +0000