Apple will be the only supplier of parts, so if they fail to make repairing the devices illegal [1] they will at least be able to control who is repairing them. This allows them to squash any dissenting voices, like when their iOS developer guidelines officially warned developers not to tell news outlets about stupid things Apple was doing to them [2].

    If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/30/apple-right-to-repair-c...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094343/https://developer...