Mike Wuerthele

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  • Apple halts sales of the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2 in its online store ahe...

    badmonk said:
    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.
    They already have, over Masimo's W1.

    https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/10/21/apple-files-retaliatory-suits-against-firm-trying-to-ban-apple-watch
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra
  • Senator Warren wades into Apple's Beeper fight with irrelevant antitrust rhetoric

    jdw said:
    A political post where comments are allowed?  Now this is quite nice!  Bravo, AppleInsider.  It actually makes me happy that "Eightzero" isn't happy.

    Let freedom reign!

    :-)
    We'll see how it goes. So far, so good.
    dewmewilliamlondonSpitbathzeus423watto_cobra
  • If you're using a Magic Keyboard, you've opened up an attack vector

    How about expanding the article to explain how this affects:
    1. me and my iMac in my home office
    2. me and my iPad (with Smart Keyboard Folio for iPad Air (5th generation))
    ?
    I'm not sure what you want that's not in the text already.

    "Newlin says that all it takes is a Linux device, and any Bluetooth adapter for hardware" covers the attack vector and how it's executed. The text says what the attack can do, and can't.

    darkvaderwatto_cobracommand_f
  • Goodbye LabView

  • MacBook Pro 16-inch M3 Max review: Battery-powered Mac Pro power

    s.metcalf said:
    I’m interested in a comparison between the M3 Max 30-core and M2 Max 38-core, especially since they reduced memory bandwidth from 400 to 300 GB/s in that M3 Max version.  Has anyone tested it yet?
    Interesting. That really needs to be done. 

    I’ve recently watch an Artisright video on YouTube. First time seeing that channel and he claims to have done a bunch of testing and has created graphs that supposedly show there isn’t much difference between the two m3 max SOCs. I just don’t know how much to trust his claims since he seems to contradict some of the more proven reviewers. 

    To me, 1 100 GT/s drop is huge. I think it’s more of a possible bottleneck issue though and you won’t see anything except the core count difference in performance until you’re beating the thing to death with data using after effects or some scientific software. 
    I'll try to convince the folks that helped me with this review to pick up a M2 Max 38-core. Anecdotally, other folks I've spoken to about it during the process of making this review are seeing gains in the M3 Max 30 versus the M2 38-core, even when hammering the computers, but I don't have specific data because they are outside the folks that use these packages.
    killroys.metcalf9secondkox2