nekton234

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.