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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?

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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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