The biggest confusion that smartphones do not “skin” to consumers is the lengthy after-sales process and the high maintenance costs, especially of some higher-priced machines such as iphone, samsung, cameras, display screens, etc., which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, so that some mobile phone entrepreneurs or young people who are looking for ways to start a business begin to focus their attention on this virtual web world and specialize in “diy” mobile maintenance。
“as is common to maintenance, mobile phones or tablets are generally available for after-sale repair stores during a year of warranty, and are in most cases free of charge. But if you pass the warranty period and you take it for repair, it'll be quite expensive.” wang changqin, a mobile phone maintenance worker, said that, because of the monopoly of spare parts by the relevant manufacturers, it would cost thousands of dollars to change an iphone or tristar-type screen in a traditional mobile phone repair shop, and that the cost of maintenance for individual models was even equivalent to the price of a normal mobile phone。
“in fact, most parts of mobile phones can be purchased or replaced online, and the difficulty of self-maintenance for consumers is that they do not know the maintenance process, and we do so either by providing `puzzling' maintenance classes for customers or by providing guidance for us to go to the door, where `direction' costs up to $100 are charged.” xiao wang explained that in this way, consumers could have at least 50 per cent of the cost, for example on the mobile phone screen in nokia, where the cost of the mobile phone repair points was almost a thousand dollars, while diy would only cost more than 500 dollars。
With the spread of smartphones, wang said, diy can bring new ways of starting a business for cell phone burners or ordinary people, “only the purchase of small tools for mobile phone maintenance and familiarization with the relevant curricula will make it possible to start a business, with individual maintenanceers in the industry currently earning more than $10,000 a month”. According to wang, with the increasing availability of smartphones and the return of some of the classic models to the peak, the way in which diy is maintained will also lead to significant market expansion and business opportunities. Reporter yu hao
