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I can't help but think that it's a trap and there's some poison pill or work around in the mix. Apple cannot be trusted in terms of anything resembling support of right to repair and has actively worked to subvert every effort at every angle.
> It goes on to list the tech giant's conditions for continued support of the bill. Those conditions include that the bill not feature a requirement for manufacturers to enable repair providers to disable device security features.

The biggest tool that Apple has against right-to-repair is billed as a security feature - That they register the components and disable features when they're replaced. There's legitimate use for this as a security feature, as it prevents many evil-maid attacks, where the attacker installs a non-genuine camera and slurps data that way.

And that's probably what Apple had figured out they can rely on. They pretend that their lock-in is a security measure, serialize all of the replaceable components, and refuse to give the tools to allow replacing the serial numbers.

Apple is very interested in deterring theft. That's the primary reason for component security, not exotic espionage scenarios.
I'd prefer they just came out and said that and stuck to their story.

As well as reserializing parts for free if it's clear you didn't steal them.

They should just tie it to Activation Lock. Make AST 2 (or whatever it is now) available to the public, and allow pairing any component (new or pulled from an old device) as long as it's not already paired to an Activation Locked device.
Amazing (or perhaps not!) how many of us are thinking exactly the same thing. I too have been disappointed by Apple too many times to believe in them.

I think of Apple today in the same way as I thought about Microsoft back in the 90s: "Can not be trusted."

Buy our leopards eating people's face brand phones, we support right to repair now!