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In a historic about-face, Apple publicly supports right-to-repair bill (grist.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hard to say. The bill is neutral on the question of vendor-locked parts, it only says that the company has to make the real parts available to product owners as they would make them available to authorized repair centers.

I mean, it would be nice to mandate that the vendor can't implement technology to prevent the installation of third-party clone parts, but I don't know how you would structure that, legally.