Smartphones, iPads == Toasters, We Replace Instead of Fixing Them

There was a time when things you bought could be repaired by ordinary people. In the early days of automobiles, nearly every car owner had to know how to fix it (mostly because they broke down so often). If you ask your father or grandfather, they may remember taking a dead vacuum tube out of TV and going to a local hardware store to find one that matched it to get the TV up and running again.