that is my understanding, and I guess they will use their "software fix" in that, obviously not a guarantee of success
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Apple Won't Be Able to Repair Out-of-Warranty Apple Watches Due to Import Ban
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This really sucks, I hope this gets rectified by June 2024! I was able to replace my Series 6 with a new unit for only $70-80 (without AC+) because the battery health decreased down to 79%. If this ban continues infinitum, then I will have to purchase a brand new AW instead. Insane!
Sneaky Tim Cook, getting me to get AC+ on my new Series 9. Had the Series 6 with no issues and initially had planned to skip AC+ again.
Employees are not slaves. Any company should be able to hire anyone.
If Masimo wanted to keep these people, maybe they should have paid them more.
I bought mine without Apple care from Amazon which hasn’t been delivered yet can I get Apple care after it’s been delivered on the 28th?
You typically have 60 days post purchase to add it. You can do that through the Watch app on your iPhone, if you decide you want it.
Apple is getting the relevant claims of the patens invalidated for about a dozen Masimo patents due to prior art.
In the initial finding from ITC, the administrative judge found Apple breaking a lot of claims of several patens. When the full ITC dismissed a lot of it and found only Apple breaking 5 claims split across two patents.
My point being that it's not entirely clear when a product breaks a claim in a patent when even people in the ITC disagreed.
So you're going to sue the U.S. government as they are the ones that issued the order. Anyway what would we get, a $5 Apple Card?
Besides, his only logical position would be that patents are evil and actually be forced to align himself with apple.
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It would require Masimo being willing to sell.
It’s up to you, but I would get it just in case. You could go month-to-month, assuming that it works in this scenario — and I’m not sure if you can move from month-to-month to annual. If you can, this might be a good temporary plan.
Rossmann is an idiot and effectively more entertainer than anything else these days. His videos are ALL whiny complaining about anything he can think of. His channel is trash.
People love dogging Apple whenever possible, but take for granted that they depend on their products. If you agree with the lawsuit, then agree with there being no Apple Watch, repair service or don’t complain when the price of the watch either soars or comes back to market without life saving technology included. The lawsuit is really against those who want an Apple Watch, not just Apple.
Indeed, he used to do good with the repairs. But these days it's just a whine fest. Everything he says can be said in 10 seconds, while his videos almost all take 10+ minutes for the ad-money. He does have some points, but basically everything he says is: "Big company does something I don't like, big company is evil! Rinse, repeat 100x in one video."
Which is usually the case with most complainers. They complain only until it hurts themselves. And then it's too late to reverse course and they'll be either losing more money, or they won't be able to at all.
This patent is going to expire in 2028, so the chance is there that next 4 years there will be no blood-oxygen monitoring in the AW. This is a very big reason why Patent Law needs to be changed, a patent should not be allowed to force a company to not include a technology. Sure they should pay for it (would even be court mandated) but a sales ban should be impossible.
I've been paying AC+ monthly on my Ultra 1 ($4.99), just because it's extremely expensive to repair if something were to go wrong with this. I was going to cancel this Jan 1, but I just may keep it going instead.
Yeah, Masimo is totally to blame for Apple infringing its patents.
So is it set to 1923, cause many of them had the y2k bug.
