Technology

59689 readers

4800 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Apple Pausing Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in U.S. Due to Patent Dispute (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

top 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oof, right before the holidays too. What a blow to their sales.

I wonder if Apple will use the estimated sales losses as damages when they counter-sue the other party in the patent dispute. Apple is taking “preemptive” steps to comply with an order that is not in effect yet – perhaps it’s a long con to entangle the patent holder in a prolonged legal battle so as to devalue and acquire them.

[–] ThePantser 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not much of a blow when they are stopping the 21 and 24 most people will have already bought by then. They should have been ordered to cease immediately.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 0 points 11 months ago

Agreed, they probably should have been ordered to stop a while ago.

That said, Apple is the largest company in the U.S. by a number of metrics, so the fact that the government would cross them at all is kind of a surprise.

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

https://x.com/pitdesi/status/1736904033452146743

[–] poopkins 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apple being massive unethical assholes...what a surprise.

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

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.

[–] highenergyphysics 2 points 11 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.

[–] Tronn4 -3 points 11 months ago

O no