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Afarstar said:

“ I had a friend with an oura ring who found the watch was a better design decision for activity.”
The word Oura sums up this stupid comment. 

When Apple make a ring, they will beat the so called competition hands down. 

That's a sycophantic ignorant comment. This has to do with the physics of the inherent design of a ring device with sensors that require constant skin contact to function. It's irrelevant who makes it.

Rings are actually not the best design decision from an activity standpoint if you do a lot of activity involving grip or lift. The sensors lose contact with the skin and the readings become inaccurate. I had a friend with an oura ring who found the watch was a better design decision for activity. For sleep and daily use though the ring design is great.

deckert63 said:

Is Masimo a real healthcare technology firm or are they a patent troll? If the former, not sure why apple doesn’t pay them the license fees like they do Qualcomm. If the latter, may Masimo rot in special place in hell only reserved for patent trolls. 

They are a real company and their claim against Apple is legitimate.

Define 'incompatible'. I wager the new 12.9" iPad will work just fine with the old keyboard. This is just Apple being Apple with their standards with regards to tight engineering tolerances.

Seems like there is no need to upgrade from a 2018 11" until 11" gets the new display.