Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Discussing Kathy Hochul's butchering of right to repair with News10's Amal Tlaige" video.

@alexusman That's true, but it would definitely be newsworthy incident. Imagine Apple pretending to be green but closing down all repair services after fixing this bill. Their PR people are genius but that would require proper miracles to be turned positive.
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@joz534 I think as long as Apple offers you the option to get the old broken part it's okay. Even if the deal is "The replacement costs you $750 if we can keep the broken part which we'll try to recycle. If you want to have the broken part, the replacement will cost $850." Not many would take the $850 deal even if the broken part has $740 worth of hardware in theory. And to make it $740 worth for Apple only, they can use serial numbered chips and require Apple signed manifest for the parts used in the system to boot the system. However, if the new bill makes it illegal for even Apple to recycle the broken part, they can still opt to simply trash that $740 worth of still working hardware to avoid having to allow repairing their devices. Their own customers wouldn't see any difference in pricing.
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