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Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by adrian_b »

cma wrote: post #338
adrian_b wrote: post #322

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The Ricci calculus has influenced Einstein only more than a decade later, in the development of the General Relativity (1917), for which tensor calculus was indispensable. It had no influence on the theory of Special Relativity (1905). Einstein is the one who changed the meaning of the word "tensor" to the meaning used today in most cases, when tensor means a general multi-dimensional quantity. I could not find any i…

He didn't specify general vs. special but there were lots of developments leading to special relativity too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_special_relativit...

Those developments had no relationship whatsoever with the Ricci calculus that had been published a few years before, which was my point.

When the General Relativity was developed in 1917, the Ricci calculus was no longer recent, but it was 17 years old.

Therefore what the OP supposed, that there was an immediate causal relationship between these lines of work, is not true.

Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by pertymcpert »

RadixDLT wrote: post #74
ladberg wrote: post #62

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It's pretty nontrivial to buy a majority interest in any public company. It's not like you can just spend 1/2 the current market cap to acquire it, the price will shoot up drastically as soon as the market is aware of someone (especially Apple) trying to do it.

its too expensive (150 per share and going up), apple would need to spend billions

Why did you use share price and not market cap?

Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by wisty »

theamk wrote: post #234
bdowling wrote: post #192

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> some parts of them seem to definitely be a prior art The standard is to consider ALL of the elements together in the specific configuration. If this were not the case, then any invention that incorporated any conventional element (e.g., a lever) would be invalid.

It cannot be that simple, can it? Otherwise changing a single element (say "concave surface" to "sine-shaped surface", or "strap" to "clamp") would invalidate the patent.

Patents are written by lawyers to cover this, generally speaking. Also a court case will have a judge to apply some "common sense" (to lawyers) rulings, like whether in this context a strap could also be a clamp. Then the lawyers will argue their sides to the judge, try to find precedents, and call in experts, and eventually it gets sorted out.

Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by pertymcpert »

willio58 wrote: post #243
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #164

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It was probably much cheaper to just gut their consumer engineering team instead. The whole company is focused a lot on medical devices Apple wants no part of, they just want the consumer part. Though it feels like an oversight to me. In this field, like in telecom modems, patents mean a lot, so I also wonder why didn't Apple seek to buy out the consumer part of Masimo along with their patent portfolio. Maybe they di…

Yeah it seems like it was cheaper in the short run but will likely be extremely expensive in the long-run. - loss of sales of watches - either battling in court for who knows how long or settling out of court for god knows how much money. The real move would have been to just.. Grow a team internally. I mean come on, ox sensors? They couldn't have figured that out without poaching a well established med-tech company?

The issue is the patent. If they infringe the patent by coming up with the same thing then the situation is the same.

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Post by eptcyka »

Retric wrote: post #294
hedora wrote: post #292

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Though that was a design patent, they also got a normal patent for the pythagorean formula (they didn’t invent pinch zoom, so they patented computing the distance between two fingers from two x,y coordinates).

FYI: Apple’s pinch to zoom lets you rotate and drag not just zoom. This kind of subtle differences matter quite a bit from a UI perspective. You could have a punch to zoom system where a pinching motion always resulted in fixed changes to zoom levels. You could describe both implementations as “pint to zoom” but one is a lot more user friendly than the other.

I wonder of they also patented their auto complete.

Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by piyushpr134 »

Good to see usa justice system rediscovering their spine against large behemoths (granted that that 60mil would have helped to grease palms of judges & others).

would have been better to see a criminal like jobs behind bars. Sadly they never found the courage

Hope cook goes

Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by jb1991 »

nox100 wrote: post #255
areoform wrote: post #250

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A design patent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent , is different from a patent granted for an invention.

Seems similar to me. Lots of rounded rect products existed before iPhone. Like say, cassette tapes, vhs tapes, 8track tapes, bars of soap, cans of spam, license plates, sardine cans, etc...

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Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by jb1991 »

hedora wrote: post #327
Retric wrote: post #294

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FYI: Apple’s pinch to zoom lets you rotate and drag not just zoom. This kind of subtle differences matter quite a bit from a UI perspective. You could have a punch to zoom system where a pinching motion always resulted in fixed changes to zoom levels. You could describe both implementations as “pint to zoom” but one is a lot more user friendly than the other.

They also didn’t invent the rotation bit (or cosine, etc).

Are you saying there’s no grounds in a patent if it uses math, because no one can patent math? The patent isn’t even about math. It’s about user interface innovations.

Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by jb1991 »

boxed wrote: post #347
Retric wrote: post #294

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FYI: Apple’s pinch to zoom lets you rotate and drag not just zoom. This kind of subtle differences matter quite a bit from a UI perspective. You could have a punch to zoom system where a pinching motion always resulted in fixed changes to zoom levels. You could describe both implementations as “pint to zoom” but one is a lot more user friendly than the other.

I wish Apple didn't do the rotate thing though. I never ever want to rotate the map, and I do it by mistake a lot. It's infuriating and useless.

It comes in very useful in other applications, though. Particularly when you’re drawing, you need to zoom in rotate the canvas.

Re: Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

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Post by ekam »

oblio wrote: post #340
KennyBlanken wrote: post #302

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Or leasing a new Mercedes every few months so that you never have to have a license plate and register your car like the rest of us plebians...and can illegally park in handicapped parking spaces because cops can't issue a ticket to a vehicle with no plate.

Who does that?

Steve Jobs
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