this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
427 points (95.9% liked)

Technology

59578 readers
3120 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
427
Masimo — the company that got the Apple Watch banned — has unveiled its new smartwatch (www.tomsguide.com)
submitted 10 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
155 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
  • Masimo, the company that sued Apple over patent infringement, has unveiled its own blood oxygen monitoring smartwatch called the Masimo Freedom.
  • The Masimo Freedom is a health-focused device that can track blood oxygen levels, hydration index, respiration rate, pulse rate variability, pulse rate, steps, and detect falls.
  • The smartwatch is currently in prototype stage and will be available for sale later this year at a price of $999.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/aOUXX

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] philpo@feddit.de 147 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In the name of every medical professional out there:

Fuck Masimo. You piece of shit garbage company.

Masimo does strategically patent troll other companies to keep their monopoly on oxygen saturation technology, deliver a subpar product that is very likely designed with planned obsolescence (which actively endangers patients). It's an absolute shit show.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did they sue Samsung? My Galaxy Watch has an O2 sensor.

[–] philpo@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's more about the medical field - we use more precise equipment than can measure a bit more. And very likely Samsung has to pay somone even for the smartwatch version.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

There are different types of O2 sensors.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Patent trolling Apple doesn’t seem like a winning move. Can they really sell a smartwatch without infringing on anything in Apple’s patent portfolio? The revenge will be swift and terrifying

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They can license it, just like how Apple should have licensed their tech.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

ThTs usually the way things work, but that didn’t happen here (obviously). We don’t know who tried to get better terms or who rejected terms

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

They aren't a patent troll. This is literally their business. They are sueing apple becsuse they are violating their patent and could have or has had a negative impact on their business. This is the kind of suit patents were designed for.

Patent trolls buy up patents but produce nothing and do nothing with those parents--except for suing people to make money.