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  • Apple's stripping out blood oxygen sensing from Apple Watch enough to skirt import ban

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    tech_traveller said:
    I am glad. Whether you like or dislike Apple, medical devices should have some exception to other product categories.

    That being said, I hope Masimo gets reimbursed for their troubles.
    So medical devices should be exempt from intellectual property laws? I don’t think so. 

    This whole thing is about money. I know that sounds obvious, but what I mean is Apple controls the entire process. They decided it would be more cost-effective to fight it and make changes on the periphery.   They could’ve simply cut a big check to license the technology. Who knows what they want for that. Let’s say they wanted $250 million. That’s a core technology for them and the company has a market cap of a little over 6 billion. Apple likely figured that fighting it in court and making changes would cost less.  Let’s say 50 million.  Ultimately, Apple will win either way. They’re not simply going to tuck their tail between their legs and not sell the Apple Watch anymore. If push comes to shove, could buy Masimo 30 times over just with its cash-on-hand.  
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  • Tim Cook's pay drops to $63 million for 2023

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    Appleish said:
    Unlike most uber CEOs, he probably earned it. That being said, tax the rich like we did back in the good ol' 1950s.
    That’s a common misconception. The rates were higher, but almost no one paid them. The income limits were high enough that most people never got to that top rate. And when I say most people, I mean even the so-called rich.  The rich already pay the lion’s share of taxes in this country.  
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  • Apple Vision Pro will ship to customers on February 2

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    nubus said:

    lmasanti said:

    it is best to begin from the top… and then easily go down… than begin from the bottom and then try build upon a clunky design. See Quest. (Tesla copied this business model!)
    Apple did in the past launch a few products at the top only to massively restructure things. Lisa ended up in part rebranded as Macintosh XL and part in landfill in Utah with Mac being 75% cheaper! Watch 1st Edition - top price of $12000 - and then series 1 had the top price reduced by 90%. iPhone... Apple launched it at $599 and then dropped it two months later to $399 (33%). Apple should slash the price to $2000 and launch an M3/Wifi 7 version this summer for $2500.
    That may happen, but not because it “should.”  It happens due to market forces.  The iPhone sold way above expectations, so they could justify dropping the price.  The Lisa was severely overpriced and it didn’t sell.  The Watch had that one option but most were far cheaper.  
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  • Beeper's CEO wants to sue Apple for blocking its iMessage bridge hack

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    Nothing but PR. Apple would obviously destroy this company legally if it wanted to.  Beeper poses no threat to them legally and so they will just keep swatting them away like flies.  

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  • Apple will pause U.S. Apple Watch sales starting December 21

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    This is about nothing more than money. And I don’t  just mean Masimo.  Their market cap is 6 billion. Apple’s is 3 trillion.  Right now Apple feels it’s cheaper and easier to announce they’re going to comply with the order and fight it in the courts. If necessary, they’ll simply buy the company outright.  Announcing they are actually going to stop selling the latest. Apple Watch is a brilliant move.  The Biden administration can use any win it can get right now. They’ll probably make a big deal of announcing they saved Christmas or something.  
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