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Sounds good for the employees, so go Apple?
Giving a pass to trillion dollars companies for them to just come next to something they are interested in, poach employees, steal IP and not give a dim to actual innovators sure will be a great incentive towards companies doing more R&D.
I never really understood why protecting Massimo in this situation was more important than allowing customers to access a feature in their watch. I get patent law is important, but they seemed more interested in rent-seeking from Apple than actually providing a desirable product that people could benefit from.
"Rent seeking" is original intent of patents, correct? The theory being that this incentivizes invention.
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Yep, my Garmin also has matched the doctors office instrument to the 1% every time.
Which model do you have?
I really use the hell out of it. Yeah I can't play solitaire like an iWatch, but the battery lasts 7 days in the backcountry, the flashlight is unbelievably handy while hiking/camping/boondocking, and it helps me be healthy with all of the data. Being able to trigger my inReach is also a nice touch. It's definitely a tool rather than a fashion piece.
Let's be clear: the return of this function requires an iPhone; the original version did not.
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On their best days, they're accurate to within 2-4%. But so many things can trip up the reading, like melanin: As a result, for darker-skinned patients, oxygen saturation readings can read as normal when they are, in fact, dangerously low. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/pulse-oximeters-racial-bia... When everyone starting looking at every percentage point of their SpO2 during COVID as if it were life or death, the…
80% at sea level is very bad. 80% while asleep at 11,500 ft is not unusual. Ref: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10157825/ There’s a chart somewhere in there on mean sleep so2 by elevation
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Sounds good for the employees, so go Apple?
Giving a pass to trillion dollars companies for them to just come next to something they are interested in, poach employees, steal IP and not give a dim to actual innovators sure will be a great incentive towards companies doing more R&D.
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Sounds good for the employees, so go Apple?
Giving a pass to trillion dollars companies for them to just come next to something they are interested in, poach employees, steal IP and not give a dim to actual innovators sure will be a great incentive towards companies doing more R&D.
if your IP is just lines on a patent you dont really have much moat in the first place.
Apple was in a patent dispute over this feature with Massimo. Their workaround is to calculate blood oxygen on the iPhone, using the sensors from Apple Watch. The Apple Watch hardware is otherwise the same. The back of the watch shines light of a specific wavelength into your skin and measures the reflected light. Heart rate sensing uses green (525 nm) and infrared (850–940 nm) light; blood oxygen sensing added a red…
Software patents are a scourge.