Most likely didn’t spent enough on bribes lobbying.
Apple should be forced to pay licensing fees for the products being sold until supplies last…
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Rubezahl@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The fact that they seem to really have expected a Biden “pardon” is absolutely hilarious to me.
kingaloo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
freeman@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Obama did veto an ITC ban on Apple before but Masimo is an American company unlike Samsung.
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Really wonder what exactly Apple is planning/trying to do here. They have more than enough money to settle with Masimo - IMO it makes the most sense for them to just settle an amount for the existing watches, and redesign a new oxygen sensor module for the US market.
Kind of silly for them to expect some kind of special treatment ripping off another company’s tech, when they themselves are hyper protective over copycats ripping them off
CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe the sales figures were less than expected and will use this as an excuse to the board.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, if I was on the board or a shareholder, I would be much more pissed about patent infringment that should have been easy to prevent and hints at incompetence over lower than expected sales which is just hard to predict.
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you were an invester or board member, you wouldn’t care about the patent infringement - Apple has historically done this and you wouldn’t invest in the first place if you weren’t okay with it. This one’s just getting more eyeballs and actual repurcussions but they’ve paid off and bought out multiple companies over stuff like this.
MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If I were an investor I would be much more lenient with the excuse that the market is saturated than the excuse that we’re too incompetent to even maintain a presence in the market.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They also have more than enough money to drain Masimo by dragging them through legal proceedings, so Apple can just swoop in and buy them out.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
But there’s no reason for Apple to do that it would have been cheaper for them to just pay for the license. I think they didn’t think they’d get called out on it, and now they don’t know what to do.
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’m not sure how big Masimo is, but they probably have reasonably deep pockets too considering they manufacture and sell a ton of hospital equipment.
If Apple wanted to buy out Masimo it certainly wouldn’t be cheap, and would probably upset their shareholders, but they do have the money
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
What if they wanted to buy them from the start and are thinking they can drop the price?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If they fold now, what message will it send to other companies that have patents that Apple infringes on?