Apple is finally ready to play nice with right to repair

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.

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