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Re:Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring a... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday January 21, 2024 @06:53PM (#39084330)
That's false. Apple brain-fucked Masimo to spill their beans on how their tech works, precisely with the promise they were gonna license it. Then they did a switcheroo where they went ahead and integrated their tech without paying them.
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Re:Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring a... by echelon on Sunday January 21, 2024 @06:57PM (#39084373)
Scummy as fuck. Masimo should get billions from this in compensation.

Giants should get body slammed by the DOJ when they treat little companies like this.

Let this be a lesson to every startup: file patents!

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Re:Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring a... by ffgjgf1 on Monday January 22, 2024 @03:59AM (#39087645)
> Apple brain-fucked Masimo to spill their beans on how their tech works

That hardly makes sense since Masimo had to disclose that themselves when filling the patent for their “tech”

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Re:Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring a... by FirmwareBurner on Monday January 22, 2024 @05:02AM (#39087949)
Patents don't always explain everything. Otherwise why would Apple want to to have meetings with Masimo in the first place if they could just rip off their patent directly.
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