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Why Did Apple Endorse California’s Right-to-Repair Bill?
- red-iron-pine 3y ago> What drove Apple to endorse this bill is hard to judge. Presumably, the company, famous for dragging its heels when it comes to the right to repair, now sees it as inevitable that the government will give individuals and independent shops an expanding body of rights to repair electronic products. And the company’s letter to Senator Eggman spells out certain aspects of the bill that Apple liked—in particular, that the set of things a manufacturer must provide to individuals and independent shops is no broader than what it already provides to authorized repairers. Kinda burying the lede near the end of article there. Speculation in other posts about suggested that they could classify a lot of their phone as being "security related" or similar dodges that allow them to ignore most of the law.