badmonk

No way this is going to happen because Peloton guves nothing of significant value to Apple.

Dear DOJ, here are some more important tech issues that the average American cares more about.  After all if the duopoly of Visa/MC gets a pass (yeah we have a bit of a choice) why would the Android/iOS duopoly be any different?  So here is the list:

1) Ticketmaster, why had this stranglehold on venue tickets not been broken?

2) online criminality, which is a huge drag on the economy and often the elderly are victimized without recourse (ironically letting Alphabet and Apple secure their devices is the best way to fight it).

3) Youtube is pretty much it for long form video delivery and as a consumer the barrage of commercials hurts all of us (unless you pay for a subscription) and since they have no true competition the subscription can be exorbitant, a true monopoly.

4) Google for search, though I think AI assisted search will radically change this in the coming years.

5) Amazon Marketplace, though not a strict monopoly, they exploit third party sellers through price requirements, innumerable fees, etc.  Not to mention that if any one has a product that takes off, Amazon will surely copy it and undercut the price, Sherlocking on an industrial scale.

6) The Meta and Alphabet ad markets have evidence of anticompetitive behavior, though this is too complex to review here.

7) I am ignoring real “meat space issues” like payday lending, airline price fixing, ISP choice etc etc.

Lamego sounds like a scumbag opportunist who was not a good fit in the culture of Apple.  It also seems like he bears a good deal of the blame.

His name is appropriate…he is “lame” and always on the “go” after joining a company.

So Masimo is not a patent troll, but the idea that they will make a health watch with the scale of Apple Watch is a ridiculous notion.

As a retired physician, so many of my patients and colleagues were using Apple Watch and specifically the pulse oximeter to monitor their health, especially my pulmonary patients with COPD & ILD.  And my father when he was in hospice.  It was critical for letting individuals know if they needed to seek medical help when they were in the throes of COVID in the beginning and middle of the pandemic as another example.

There is real harm to this.  I just hope at the end of the day this is just put through arbitration and if Apple is violating Masimo patents, there is a FRAND settlement so both companies can just get on with their lives.

Even if Masimo has aspirations to make a health watch, I guarantee you that Apple will be looking for an opportunity to counter sue for any thing that resembles an Apple Watch.

So yeah BS.

Anilu_777 said:

Well I guess I’m not updating my watch. It shouldn’t affect me in Canada as the case is in the US. I hope Apple makes it a US only update. 

Agree, no software updates for my AW Ultra.