Apple support their version of right to repair.

You have the right to repair your Apple device on their terms, with their overpriced tools, with their overpriced parts, following their restrictive terms, and authenticate almost every repair with Apple.

If you try and get a part from another supplier, or source your own genuine parts from dead devices that's going to cause "bugs", like faceID or auto brightness not working if you have the audacity to repair "their" device.

They're also going to work like hell to use any loophole that allows them to deny self repair.

Remember, it's Apple's device, you're just using it.

Yes, this reads jaded as hell. But given all the things Apple have done to deny self or 3rd party repair it's hardly lies.

Sounds like a classic EEE scheme. There's no way in hell apple would actually support this without ulterior motives.

Pretty sure they are turning around as a similar bill is in preparation in Europe that they won't be able to stop it so they want to get ahead of the curve and come out as supporters.

This makes me wonder what is in that bill that would cause Apple to support it given their history

This only means they found a way to make more money by having it than not.

oh so this means they'll stop soldering ram and SSD's to motherboards?

yeah... not really repairable without a reflow setup, thanks Apple.

This is the best headline I have read in my life. The person that came up with it is a genius.

(It‘s news from yesterday but I wanted to comment on the headline)

Are they supporting it so that they can gimp it?

We support the right to repair! Starting now all keycaps will be replaceable. Anything on the motherboard is off limits though or the display or the battery or the ports or the camera.

Ok...what's the catch?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a letter dated August 22, Apple showed its support for California's right-to-repair bill, SB 244, after spending years combatting DIY repair efforts.

As reported by TechCrunch, the letter, written to California state Senator Susan Eggman, declared that Apple supports SB 244 and urged the legislature to pass it.

California's final bill "should balance device integrity, usability, and physical safety" with the right to repair, Apple's letter reportedly says.

Apple's letter is a reverse-course on the battle against right-to-repair efforts that it's been fighting for a decade, as noted via Repair.org Executive Director Gay Gordon-Byrne through a US PIRG press release Wednesday.

That includes in California, where in 2019, The Verge and Motherboard reported that an Apple representative met with legislators, encouraging them to kill a right-to-repair bill over alleged consumer safety concerns.

Nathan Proctor, senior director of US Public Interest Research Group's (PIRG's) Right to Repair Campaign, wagered a guess to Ars:

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What's wrong with the bill?

Turning it into the car parts/repair scam, ..er business.