The hand-gesture UI sounds a bit like that in Minority Report but with a headset rather than a wrap-around screen. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Raqx9sFbo

That request reportedly covered "systemic risks relevant to their services, in particular those related to the dissemination of illegal and harmful content, any negative effects on the exercise of fundamental rights, as well as any negative effect on public security, public health, and minors."

Yeah, I seem to recall that included in those bans on :"illegal and harmful content" during Covid having a "negative effect on... public health" were conspiracy theories that the Covid virus leaked out of the Wuhan lab, which is now a well-established fact.

If I were about to spend over $3000, I wouldn't be bothered by a 25-minute sales pitch. Indeed, I'd demand a lot more than that before I'd buy.

Factors specifically affecting Apple are a difficult first-half handset market, and signs of RAM and Flash chip pricing increasing.

Could someone tell me what "handset" Apple makes? That's the old term for the part of a wired telephone that was held in the hand, hence "handheld." I assume the iPhone is meant, but why didn't Piper Sandler use the same word as everyone else? And as for "RAM and Flash chip pricing increasing," that's true of everyone in that market not just Apple. By its sheer size Apple is in a better position to dictate prices.

There is a legitimate concern that Apple may have trouble transiting from assembling iPhones almost exclusively in China to making them in India and Vietnam, but that's not mentioned. 

Handset—The handle-shaped part of a telephone, containing the receiver and transmitter and often a dial or push buttons.

Most of this articles seems to be about the money Masimo makes out of patent settlements. Is Masimo a serious company or is it a patent troll that keeps up a charade of selling medical products.

To research that I checked Amazon.

• Their Masimo MightySat Fingertip Pulse Oximeter currently sells for $269.99. It has a 4.5 star rating and has sold a mere 50+ in the past month. That's not much business for a company that's spending $100 million on lawyers. They have no business to save worth speaking of.
• A similar looking Innovo Deluxe Fingertip Pulse Oximeter has a slightly better 4.7 star rating, sells for $34.99 and has sold 5K+ in the past month. Indeed, Amazon has page after page filled with pulse oximeters selling for between $25 and $45. Masimo's is such a far outliner I could not find another even close to its price.

What's really odd is when I had Amazon display pulse oximeters priced from high to low, the Masimo did not even appear. The most expensive one displayed is from Zacurate at $44.99. I've been told by people at Amazon that its search results aren't literally accurate, that some items aren't displayed for reasons known only to Amazon. I suspect Amazon considers the Masimo so grossly overpriced, it doesn't bother to list it in some search results. In fact when I searched for Masimo pulse oximeter by name, it only came up fifth. 

Also, there's nothing remarkable about Masimo's product even though it sells for about six times the market price. Accuracy certainly isn't a factor. It's displays two digits on a tiny display just like all the other products, that's a 1% accuracy, which is fine for that purpose. There's also deception in this claim. 

• Clinically Proven Technology: Powered by Masimo SET, the same technology used by 9 of the top 10 US hospitals and is used to monitor more than 200 Million patients annually.

Yeah, that "same technology" is not only used by "top hospitals," it's almost certainly used in these inexpensive home ones. That's where that 200 million figure comes from for a country with about 330 million people.  It would not surprise me if it was being made in the same Chinese factories that make those $25 pulse oximeters. It looks much the same.

I've been known to criticize Apple's business tactics, but in this case I'm on Apple's side. They're battling a dishonest patent troll that sells overpriced sham products. I wish them every success.