nekton234

Here's an example why I support right to repair—a musician friend with a 27" iMac from 2009 (core i7, 16 GB RAM, SSD conversion, nVidia GPU) started seeing graphics glitches. He hauled it 2 hours to Apple where they diagnosed a failing GPU (a later model with the same known nVidia GPU issues would have been under extended warranty but not this model). The estimated GPU repair bill was $600 which was more than the value of the iMac. He declined, hauled it back home, asked me to get the data off the SSD, and then bought a new top-of-the line $3000 iMac online from Apple Store.
As part of the deal he gave me the old iMac. I disassembled it, gave him the SSD for use in an external and removed the GPU assembly. A call to Apple confirmed they would not sell me the GPU board and wanted $600 for a repair.  A search on ebay revealed that a part pulled from a dead iMac would be $480. (S/H Mac parts are kept massively expensive because Apple prohibits sales of new genuine Apple parts in the open market.)
I took the board to a professional reflow facility that does a lot of reflow work for Sony where they X-rayed it and could see cracks in the BGA.  They removed the old nVidia chip and reflowed in a new one for $60.   Two hours later I had the GPU mounted back on its now clean and not plugged heat sink and installed in the iMac.
It has run like a champion for the last 3 years and is still in daily use on 10.13.3.
Apple would have scrapped it, but a little repair TLC kept it out of landfill.
Notwithstanding that it had a bad thermal design where the cooling air for the GPU heat sink was already hot after being pulled through other hot components, and that nVidia had used a known bad high-tin solder alloy prone to cracking under high thermal load cycling, instead of doing the right thing by having a GPU recall on this model, Apple made it impossible for a customer to do anything other than spend $3000 on a new iMac so he could continue working.
Right to repair with access to Apple parts, etc., would stop this and provide some customers with fairer and cheaper alternatives.

Clearly the majority of posters here have never looked inside an iPhone, Mac or other smartphone/computer for that matter.  
Most all are relatively easy to disassemble with a few decent tools if you can read an instructions guide at iFixit.
The hard part is getting quality Apple parts and this bill will require Apple and others to supply those parts.
Nobody is stopping you taking your equipment to Apple for repair but this bill gives people who know the sharp end of a driver an easier way to fix what they own.
Only one of the 5 iPhones and 4 Macs in this house was bought new. The rest are fixed broken S/H units (and kept out of landfill) using the ability to read and use tools.
And remember, the Foxconn production lines building iPhones and Macs are staffed by people who were planting rice paddy 2 months before they joined Foxconn, so if they can be trained, why can't a third-party repair person learn those same skills?
Drinking Apple's koolaid just keeps you in their upgrade-every-2-years thrall and a lot poorer as a result.