Apple AirPods and Malicious Compliance

Apple’s AirPods are the perfect distillation of how Apple uses lock-in to simultaneously enable great products, and to prevent anybody else from doing the same. They also exemplify Apple’s antipathy towards the right to repair: AirPods are just plain disposable tech, a $250 gadget that lasts a few years before you have to toss them and replace them. The 2022 Digital Markets Act is a set…

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