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Masimo — the company that got the Apple Watch banned — has unveiled its new smartwatch (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Masimo, the company that sued Apple over patent infringement, has unveiled its own blood oxygen monitoring smartwatch called the Masimo Freedom.
The Masimo Freedom is a health-focused device that can track blood oxygen levels, hydration index, respiration rate, pulse rate variability, pulse rate, steps, and detect falls.
The smartwatch is currently in prototype stage and will be available for sale later this year at a price of $999.

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[–] Asidonhopo 97 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not a fan of Apple but the number of people who would benefit from being able to monitor blood oxygenation is more meaningful to me than Masimo's ability to sell thousand dollar smartwatches with its patent technology. Would be great if somehow this patent was bought out and made public domain so people outside the upper middle class could have an affordable way to track their vitals.

[–] DingoBilly 82 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Apple can easily pay to license the technology and utilise it, and has had multiple chances to over the years at reasonable prices.

This result is only because Apple is run by some absolute morons who were happy to try and steal the tech but got caught with their pants down.

As for making it available to upper middle class, there's plenty of devices out there already for monitoring blood oxygenation for under $100.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Apple is run by some absolute morons who were happy to try and steal the tech

Xerox PARC intensifies

If you look at almost everything "iconic" that Apple has ever done they have "borrowed" or outright stolen from others. This is entirely on brand for Apple. They just ran up against someone who was willing to push back.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (65 children)

Would be great if somehow this patent was bought out and made public domain so people outside the upper middle class could have an affordable way to track their vitals.

Apple is a strange choice as a champion for that. Their devices always have been notoriously overpriced.

[–] LucidLethargy 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apple also holds over 95,500 patents. I will never get why some people defend this crazy company. They make underperforming computers and sell them for wayyy over their value.

[–] lepinkainen 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Please list here all competitors to the MacBook Air in the same price point:

Battery life must be equal or better, no extra points will be given for massive CPU/GPU power. I'll wait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Battery life must be equal or better, no extra points will be given for massive CPU/GPU power

LOL. Cherry-picking much? You corpo fanboys are so pathetic.

[–] lepinkainen 1 points 11 months ago

Nope, I just need a laptop with a 10 hour reliable battery life for work. YMMV of course.

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[–] maness300 43 points 11 months ago

Only idiots think that work wouldn't get done without them.