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Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

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Re: Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

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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.

> steal IP if your IP is just lines on a patent you dont really have much moat in the first place.

If Apple wants to copy your IP, and you're in consumer electronics, you don't have a moat. You're done.

Re: Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

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Let's be clear: the return of this function requires an iPhone; the original version did not.

The Apple Watch already requires an iPhone for setup.

Right, but only for setup. The previous implementation would work if you went on a walk without your phone.

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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.

The innovators are the employers. The company doesn’t innovate. So if the employees got taken care of then the actual innovators made out well.

Innovators require the ecosystem.

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post #258

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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.

There is no such thing as “poaching” employees - just paying them a market rate.

If you actively go out of your way to hire people from company X on a priority bases rather than skills (and no, trade secrets are not "skills"), then you're poaching and it is not same as paying market rate.

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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.

Employees are not game. They cannot be “poached.” That phrasing implies that they are property of the company that employs them. What you call “poaching” is just giving an offer to a person, and that person accepting the offer of their own free will. The idea that this is bad is absurd, and only serves to hurt regular people in favor of companies.

Re: Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

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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…

According to the link, the patents in question expire in 2028.

Re: Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

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post #247

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That’s not for you to decide. It somebody is eating/smoking/drinking themselves to death, does that give you the right to murder them?

I don't follow your argument. Are you saying eating or smoking to death is like a CEO making bad decisions that causes their company to struggle?

No, it’s that murdering someone doing those things is wrong. Even if the company is clearly circling the drain that doesn’t give apple or anyone else the right to steal their staff and infringe on their ip.

Re: Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

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Just offloading the analysis to the phone is extremely funny. It also seems like a pretty obvious solution, so I wonder if it was delayed by legal analysis and they only just decided it was likely to hold up in court.

Apple says: > This update was enabled by a recent U.S. Customs ruling. I can't find the ruling in question, though, so I'm not sure what they mean.

Presumably they mean it was enabled by the bribe they publicly gave the US President last week, and he or his goons have told them to expect a favorable ruling soon.

Re: Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

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post #247

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I don't follow your argument. Are you saying eating or smoking to death is like a CEO making bad decisions that causes their company to struggle?

No, it’s that murdering someone doing those things is wrong. Even if the company is clearly circling the drain that doesn’t give apple or anyone else the right to steal their staff and infringe on their ip.

There’s no such thing as stealing staff especially when you severely underpay you employees. $100k for sr devs. Pay them what they’re worth and they won’t leave.
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