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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by rapind on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:51PM (#22741726)
This is a systematic problem with crony capitalism. It will always be with us so long as lobbying and corporate campaign donations are a thing.
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:02PM (#22741866)
Fingers crossed that all the shenanigans preventing cheap ventilators coming to market will force some regulatory action.
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by Godel_unicode on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:20PM (#22742725)
By shenanigans, do you perhaps mean the rigorous testing regime applied to a device which will literally be putting the air in your lungs while you're unconscious??

I for one am super happy that people with this attitude have been totally unable to penetrate the medical devices field!

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:26PM (#22744995)
You might want to read about the sort of malfeasance that has put us in this situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...

TLDR: A $3000 ventilator was β€œon schedule to file for market approval in September 2013” and then Covidien bought out the competition to prevent it coming to fruition.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by Godel_unicode on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:20AM (#22746218)
Covidien at the time already sold a $5000 portable ventilator, which was never rejected by the FDA. The prospective Newport ventilator was rejected for neonatal use, which was a requirement of their BARDA contract.
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by simonh on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:15PM (#22743298)
A badly made ventilator can kill you a lot faster than the virus.
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