The stipulations of this new bill are actually the same as those in California's longstanding "Lemon Law" applied more generally, which SHOULD have been true of the Lemon Law but apparently enforcement was limited to automobiles exclusively.
I know this because in 1998 or 1999 my Nokia CRT monitor failed, and to my disgust I found there were no repair options. Nokia had sold its brand and PART of its business to Viewsonic, who had promptly ditched everything but the name.
@majorlinux Does the bill stop companies (looking at you, Apple) from charging exorbitant prices for parts, or requiring proprietary equipment to perform repairs? It feels like, unless it does that, “Right to Repair” is only good on paper.
You can’t take the screen from a busted iPhone and put it on a current iPhone with a cracked screen. They demand that if you wish to repair it, you must buy a new screen from them and go through a process (that requires them getting root on a Mac) to bind the two together.
> Note: True Tone and auto brightness functionality are disabled after a screen replacement, even when using an original Apple screen. Face ID is also disabled unless the iPhone runs iOS 15.2 or newer.
The workaround is to transplant the secure element from one screen to another, but that’s quickly going to be integrated into the panel at this rate.
AIUI, You also can’t screenswap M2 MacBooks (refuses to boot/gives TrueTone warnings) and you lose TouchID until you have it Blessed, plus you Perma-lose TouchID if you mobo swap M1 and beyond MacBook.
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