Another fabulous piece from Jan Chipchase about the repair cultures of emerging markets, along with some great photos.
“For consumers the informal repair culture is largely convenient, efficient, fast and cheap, reducing the total cost of ownership for people for whom a small drop in price may make the difference between having or not having a phone. The culture of repair also increases the lifetime of products lowering their environmental impact (though this could be offset by other factors such as inefficiency of using old batteries).”
Link: Cultures of Repair, Innovation (janchipchase.com)
Related:
- Why people carry what they carry
- Observing the every day
- When people don’t use phones to make calls
- Materials things are made from
- Physical personalisation of phones
Tags: cell, emergingmarkets, mobile, nokia, phones, repair, research
