This just seems like a new moat the big companies have dug to discourage small companies from breaking into the hardware industry. If this was about the right

This just seems like a new moat the big companies have dug to discourage small companies from breaking into the hardware industry. If this was about the right to repair, then the bill would have been about releasing schematics and preventing anti-repair designs (like the Hall-effect sensor in Macbooks that includes a circuit with the sole purpose of preventing third-party replacement). In actuality, this is against the little guy in two ways; the purpose of forcing repair shops to disclose their use of "unauthorized" parts can only serve to try to discredit them in the eyes of the public. The public just wants their devices to work, but now California wants to scare them with this idea of "unauthorized" parts.