Catch is the same as USB C thing. They forced to do it in one of the major markets(California this time) and it’s easier for them to do it everywhere than have multiple processes.

Just like the defence industry - profit. Sell parts to repair shops 😂

1. it raises the bar for their competitors and makes it more difficult for them to compete since they need to support their own repair programs

2. it allows them to boast about their sustainability efforts

The article says:

Apple’s pledge to extend California’s law on a national level is “a strategic move.” “Apple likely hopes that they will be able to negotiate out the parts of the Minnesota bill they don’t like,” Chamberlain wrote in an email, pointing specifically to the “fair and reasonable” parts provisioning measure that could preclude Apple’s tendency toward pairing parts to individual devices.

And the article linked about that Minnesota law says that:

The modified [NY’s] bill also allowed manufacturers to sell “assemblies” of parts—like a whole motherboard instead of an individual component, or the entire top case Apple typically provides instead of a replacement battery or keyboard—if an improper individual part installation “heightens the risk of injury.”

and that:

Minnesota’s bill, by comparison, covers most electronic products sold on or after July 1, 2021, and doesn’t allow for as much manufacturer discretion. Companies that sell in Minnesota but don’t offer customers or independent repair shops the materials needed to fix devices with “fair and reasonable” terms and within 60 days can be found in violation of the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices law

And also:

given how manufacturers must now provide free documentation for Minnesotans who want to repair their goods, most companies will post them online. Once online, they’re liable to spread everywhere.

So from that article, the answer is easy. Apple rather lobby to get the bills towards one where they essentially can sell you half a computer/phone preassembled vs one where they need to sell more specific components.

Very green for them, and not the environmental kind.

So apple should not sell parts? or should give parts away for free? What is your suggested solution to the selling of parts? Force them to open source all software and release any and all IP licenses they hold to anyone who wants to make parts and products of thier own?

That is called calibration, and if your using parts form an iCloud locked devices apple servers will not provide diagnostic mode the calibration profile as you are likly using stolen parts.

Wha apple should do is document the protools that would let you load your own claibraiotn profile if you purchase third party parts (that come with profiles)… but such parts would cost as much as OEM parts from apple as factories that produce parts and bother to create calbiraiotn profiles do no too this for cheap.

Legacly speaking there is no “serial pairing on device” apple have crafted this to infact be calibration profiles and then have put the job on apples servers to not let a phone download calibration info for part SN that have already been paired to another SOC.

This was a change with the iPhone 12 (and M1 Macs). Moving it server side means they could (and might well) change this to let you download the profile but only if the donwer device is not iCloud locked (otherwise it might be stolen…)

Should they provide documentation on how third parties can create thier own calibration profiles and provide them along side parts? Yes but getting a law past that would require apple to write stuff would be hard in the US… the entire “you can compel speech” legal defence that apple used successfully to not be forced to make a custom version of iOS that would let the FBI crack into phones.