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Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They probably already did offer spare parts on at least some products if you really wanted them, but shipping is pretty prohibitive on stuff like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Also, they take up space in super markets, if they wanna sell them there. If they just wanna sell them on a webshop, they still have to package and send the parts which costs a lot of money aswell. I think this is the absolute best case, and I (might be biased because I own a 3d printer myself) think 95% of people knows someone who have a 3d printer, that would love to print something like this for other people