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Bad actors have monetized global inequity since time began.

The interesting thing is how this falls into the right to repair argument re: lock down of parts.

Imagine if you report your car stolen to the manufacturer & a phone home immobilizer locks down the ignition + all 4 wheel brakes + activates the alarm.

Just like a stolen phone being bricked, this will not end crime, but raise the bar & make certain males & models less-likely targets (unlike Hyundai and Kia making some models *more* likely targets due to archaic, easily breakable ignition locks.)

Philadelphia has a fair bit of vehicle left too, but the majority has always been (and still is) off dealers lots & the port area waiting for further shipping via rail. When they are sitting waiting for a train, they have their keys inside 

To be fair, we have watched the 1%-ers in the US steal from us for generations. And get rewarded with more concentrated wealth.

I know it is not an exact comparison, but when you watch the rich lay off your parents & move the factories to Mexico, you watch the rich lie cheat & steal with impunity. You watch the filthy rich oil companies demand tax-payer subsidies & you watch the system break the backs of the workers  more with every passing generation you become slightly immune to the shouts of immorality & societal decay coming from the ivory towers with clear glass walls.

Tax the poor so the rich may live. 

sflocal said:

Would it have killed OWC to include SD and MicroSD into this as it obviously has the space?

I think the answer would be similar to "Why didn't they put a 3.5" floppy drive in with the Blu-ray burner?"


If you have a workflow using CFexpress 4.0 memory cards, SD and microSD aren't really on your radar.
And, honestly, there is a good chance you have an SD reader already build into your laptop or desktop.
If you are an enthusiast/hobbyist get their much slower combo device for less:
https://www.owc.com/solutions/atlas-dual-cfexpress-sd-card-reader

Chances are you aren't burning money @ work waiting for multiple TB of video to transfer from your camera card.

OWC had a wonderful habit of building fast, streamlined devices for professionals, and this is exactly that. 

AppleZulu said:

eriamjh said:

Let’s just hope that Apple doesn’t repeat this of they ever get glucose monitoring working.  

I would expect blood oxygen to return in Watch 10 or 11.  

It appears Apple expects to win the current appeal, and it’ll be available on all watches, including the 9s sold with the app currently disabled. 

If Apple wins the appeal and Masimo is shown to be a tenacious patent troll, then it wouldn’t be about Apple ‘repeating this’ with glucose monitoring in the future. Other than by vigorously defending cases like the current one, Apple doesn’t control whether others will try to come after them with patent litigation in the future. 

to be fair, Masimo is a legitimate medical device company that brought functional pulse-oximetry to hospitals almost 30 years ago, decreasing the need for arterial blood gas measurements & improving patient outcomes in NICUs and ICUs & hospitals in general. 

Yes, there are other methods and algorithms, yes, Masimo has typically led the medical field since they introduced signal extraction technology pulse-ox in the mid '90s.

If tech companies ever add OCT to their devices for monitoring your retinal health, i see similar patterns of issues coming from the likes of Zeiss and Heidelberg Engineering and other patent holding companies that have invested vast amounts of time and money into maturation of a concept on the medical side. 

Not speaking to this case in particular, but tech companies seem to think they can flaunt rules and regulations & ignore the status quo (read: rules and regulations) that "traditional" companies have to follow (see NYC/London/others re: Uber/Lyft/AirBNB.... see Owlet selling a baby monitor as a quasi medical device, but with none of the actual testing or ability) 

radarthekat said:

mikethemartian said:

sbdude said:

Apparently the unionizers didn't understand what a union is or how it works. You signed a contract, now live with it. Can't wait for the NLRB to tell them exactly that.

They haven’t negotiated a contract with Apple yet.

And maybe that’s the reason Apple is holding back.  Why give something for nothing to people who insist on negotiating everything. 

They leaked an announcement the day prior to a unionization vote.

Apple was trying to dangle a "secret" carrot to entice workers not to unionize.
Jacka$$ corporate maneuver.

There is literally nothing Apple has done in the past 20 years that should entice their lowest paid workers to kowtow to corporate greed bosses.
Unions unite workers against robber barons. Sadly, in many ways Apple falls into this group.