Comment on Apple Pausing Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in U.S. Due to Patent Dispute

sugarfree@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In case you don’t want to give that shitty platform a click:

  Apple is a real bully. Apple + Maximo met for partnership/acquisition talks but Apple had a secret plan (Project Everest) to steal the tech without paying. They even recruited 20 of Masimo’s team, doubling their salaries…. Apple paid their CTO $4M to come over, and in his 1st 2 weeks he filed 12 patents for sensors at Apple that were Masimo trade secrets… the worst part is that Apple fumbled the ball and the product doesn’t really work and Apple didn’t get FDA approval like Masimo did.

  Joe Kiani, the immigrant electrical engineer CEO of Masimo seems to be fighting this as a vendetta - he’s spent >$60M fighting Apple so far & preliminarily seems to have won… most companies would not keep fighting.

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  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apple being massive unethical assholes…what a surprise.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re so odd with acquisitions like they don’t want to be seen to buy up something that people can see in their product just the smaller firms that enable the technologies. They could have bought this crowd out but chose to be cunts.

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      • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it’s less a public opinion thing (since when has Apple shown shame about pretending to invent things their competitors have had for 10+ years?)

        …and more of a stealth acquisition thing so the government doesn’t catch on until they’re too big to break up. See Microsoft for another example.

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