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Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide
(www.engadget.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Not that I fully disagree, just that there's a reason they didn't do it before. Probably more profitable to not have repairable devices. Not that they won't try to make the best of the current situation, as you said.
Also, it would likely be more expensive to produce a line of repairable products just for one state and do different for the others, so this is the best way of spinning this.