Talk:Owner's manual

Suggestions

• A history of the Owner's manual might be interesting. When was the first one issued and for what? When did they come into vogue? 99.57.25.156 (talk) 01:53, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Service Manual

• The article says information needed to repair products "was gradually relegated to specialized service manuals, or dispensed with entirely, as devices became too inexpensive to be economically repaired."

This is not quite the whole truth. If you want to repair a device you own, you will want to read the service manual. These days service manuals are copyrighted by the manufacturer, and you get sued if you distribute copies of the service manual. Copyright law is being used to enforce planned obsolescence, stopping you from repairing devices you own, and making you buy a new device. Whether the device is cheap or expensive to repair is neither here nor there. See http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/cease-and-desist-manuals-planned-obsolescence/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.228.71.21 (talk) 10:17, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

• • The referenced article above is more for mass-produced IT products (PC's, printers, etc.) of relatively low value (e.g. "disposable") and with low resale value, although I can't say it is not happening more and more. It simply is about the economics of the cost of repairing an article versus replacing it. --2600:6C48:7006:200:D84D:5A80:173:901D (talk) 00:06, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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