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Apple will partially ease its "parts pairing" policy on the same day Colorado is considering a right-to-repair bill that would ban parts pairing, and weeks after Oregon banned the practice.

"This social pressure reinforces switching costs and drives users to continue buying iPhones—solidifying Apple’s smartphone dominance not because Apple has made its smartphone better, but because it has made communicating with other smartphones worse."

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The iPhone 14 is actually not that repairable in practice because of error messages Apple sends if "nongenuine" parts are used.

In 15 years of new iPhone announcements, Apple had never talked about repairability, until now.