If you were going to buy a new Apple Watch, get it NOW

[thewayne]

Apple lost a law suit regarding them stealing tech and poaching employees from a medical device maker, and an import ban was levied as part of the punishment. Christmas Eve is the last you'll be able to buy an Apple Watch 9 or an Ultra 2 at the brick and mortar Apple Stores for the foreseeable future, unless things change, which could happen.

I posted about this a few months ago. Apple met with Masimo ages ago to look at their tech, and after that, hired a bunch of engineers and an executive. Masimo filed two complaints about Apple's intellectual property theft with the International Trade Commission. In October, the ITC ruled in favor of Masimo, resulting in the import ban for the Apple Watches which violate Masimo's tech and patents. The ban can be vetoed by President Biden, but we're down to literally the final hours and he's had since October to do it, such a veto of the ban is looking a little unlikely.

Apple shouldn't have stolen the tech and poached the people, they should have sweetened the pot and struck a deal.

https://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-ban-patent-lawsuit-masimo-1851108141

Comments

[disneydream06]

Poor Apple.
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon

[kaishin108]

That Apple! Even stealing some employees I heard. Shame on them.

[thewayne]

Tech is almost constantly doing this, it's pretty sucky.  But Apple is, I think, the #1 most valuable tech company out there.  They've got the $$$ to do things like this.  They could have struck a good licensing deal with Masimo, instead they decided to go scummy.

[kaishin108]

Right, they had a chance to do it right but no. :(

[silveradept]

They certainly have enough financial resources available to them that they could have struck a licensing deal with Masimo instead of trying to bury them, but that's what happens when you think you're invincible and at the top of the heap - that other people should be obeying you, rather than you having to placate them. I hope that Apple takes the hit and learns the lesson about not being scummy.

[thewayne]

I often stop and think, WWJD in situations like this.  The company has done some curious things under the current regime, I wonder if Jobs would have done the same.