This is the best summary I could come up with:
The decision to take one of its most popular products off the shelf follows an ongoing dispute with medical device maker Masimo over its blood oxygen feature.
In October, the International Trade Commission ruled that Apple was in violation of Masimo’s pulse oximeter patent, which uses light-based technology to read blood-oxygen levels.
“While the review period will not end until December 25, Apple is preemptively taking steps to comply should the ruling stand,” the company said in a statement.
Massimo CEO Joe Kiani told CNN he believes the decision to halt the sale of the devices is the latest salvo in the ongoing patent fight.
David McQueen, a director at ABI Research, said the decision to leave the watches available for purchase in stores until December 24 should help soften the financial impact of the blow of the pause, giving shoppers a few days left to buy the devices ahead of Christmas.
“While Apple is the lead player in the sector with around a 24% market share, it may not actually affect its business too much if it can boost sales in these final few days, assuming there is available stock,” he said.
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They could just pay the royalties. Apple is stupidly rich. Trillion dollars Rich
It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message
You’re thinking of the battle over Beeper :)
What!? Apple took another companies idea and used slick marketing to convince consumers they invented it?!
I’m shocked…dismayed…appalled…all of those things.
My world has been rightly shooketh.
On second thought, no shit…it’s Apple. That’s kind of their schtick.
Of course they would, Apple invented stealing from others and claiming they invented it after all.
Would this affect any other watches that use optical blood oxygen sensors? Are they just starting with Apple because they’re the largest or did Apple just do things the Masimo way?
Well the court found Apple violated their patent, but it doesn’t help that Apple started talking to Masimo about a partnership in 2013 and then proceeded to poach their employees. Seems pretty damning.
As far as other products, I guess it depends on if they used Masimo’s specific implementation.
Apple plans to stop selling some versions of the Apple Watch
Isn’t it impressive?
“Hey, you are doing illegal stuff there!”
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"OK but I’m already planning to stop with it…
I won’t ever blame the companies , I respect them for doing best marketing but on other the other hand dumb fucking people smh 🙄
Nah, blame the companies because they have zero morals and will get away with whatever we let them get away with. Apple et. al could just choose not to break the law just like us normal people have to. But they don’t because we usually let them get away with it. Apple calculated the risk and decided this was worth it.
“it’s not the company with zero morals who is at fault! It’s the customers who don’t know any better!!”
End of the day the customer has the money and customers should do their due diligence before buying into something. Apple is a for-profit company and doesn’t give a shit about you. It only cares about money so if they get a chance they will use it to their advantage.
Oh no, an overpriced piece of generic tech with a designer label is off the shelf? I guess they can use that money to buy a new iPhone case.
Reddit really did move here lmao. The Ultra model is actually one of the few things Apple sells that isn’t overpriced for what it is. Those stainless steel ones though, that’s another story. I certainly wouldn’t call their watches generic though. They really got everyone to up their wearable game so now there’s a ton of good stuff to choose from.
Apple should just pony up and license the patent instead of stealing other people’s work. It’s not like they are a small tech startup and Masimo is definitely not a patent troll. It’s nice to see that a big corpo isn’t above the law for once.
