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I'm guessing you're gonna tell me the first company to make such earbuds was not Apple? I'm interested to know who it was.

Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.

Knock-off makers seem to be doing just fine right now by reverse-engineering products. Do you think this is going to make their life much easier?

I believe it will. This is not a rejection of right to repair. Farmers with tractors they cannot fix and electronics in landfills outweigh the cost to business, but it is troublesome. A patent industry paradigm shift must happen, perhaps shifting the burden to pay to Amazon, Walmart and other retailers when they sell knock offs which violate patents.

I'm guessing you're gonna tell me the first company to make such earbuds was not Apple? I'm interested to know who it was.

Well, Syllable D900 were out at least a year before Apple announced theirs. The first ones? No idea.

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