Stanley is a standard Caucasian American fruit fan.
He has the latest iPhone 15 Pro in his hand, a MacBook Pro for office, and a HomePod Mini in every room in his home.
On December 21, Stanley opened Apple's official website at his home in California, hoping to choose a decent Christmas gift for his daughter, a new Apple Watch Series 9, just in time to replace the Apple Watch SE in his daughter's hand.
And it was only then that he was surprised to find out——
On Apple's official website in the United States, it is completely goneapple watch series 9traces.
That's right, according to foreign media 9to5mac:
Starting December 21 at 3 p.m. ET, Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will no longer be available for purchase from Apple's U.S. website, and inventory in Apple retail stores will not be replenished after they sell out on December 24.
(Source: 9to5mac).
Seeing this news, not only did Stanley not react, but even Xiao Lei was stunned for a while.
No, I wonder if these two are new products that Apple only released in September this yearWhy did it officially stop selling after only three months on the market?
It can't really be like what netizens sayApple was sanctioned by the United States, and I am at odds with the American imperialistsbar.
(Source: IT House).
Xiao Lei checked a little, hey, it turned out that the patent was the fault again.
The core of the whole thing is actually the blood oxygen detection function of the Apple Watch.
In 2020, didn't Apple launch the Apple Watch Series 6?One of the main selling points at the time was:Blood oxygen monitoring function,The proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in human blood can be measured using an infrared light emitter in a non-contact manner.
(Source: Apple).
Of course, even at that time, blood oxygen detection itself was not a new function, and basically the main high-end wearable products on the market had this kind of function, and Zhao Ming, president of Honor, said that his products supported blood oxygen detection in 2019.
Who would have thought that such a selling point that is not new, but Apple will be targeted by other companies.
And this company that has its eye on Apple - namedmasimo
(Source: Masimo).
Masimo (Chinese name Maixinnuo) is a health technology and consumer electronics company founded in 1989.
The Company mainly engaged in various health monitoring devices and technologies, including:Non-invasive sensors using optical technology (emphasis)., patient management and telemedicine platforms, etc., can be said to have unique advantages in the field of wearable health detection.
(Source: Masimo).
And the relationship between Masimo and Apple has not always been so bad.
On the official website of Masimo, we can see that in 2012, Masimo developed an oximeter ISPO2 that can be directly connected to the iPhone and Android device and transmit pulse data.
According to the official legal documents, in 2013, a year before the release of the Apple Watch, Apple approached Masimo, hoping to cooperate with the company's medical technology on the Apple Watch.
Unfortunately, the negotiations broke down.
(Source: Reuters).
It would have been nice if the negotiations had broken down, but Apple is clearly not the type to give up like that.
So, in 2014, the year the first Apple Watch was released, Apple poached the chief medical officer who had worked at Masimo for five years, along with another Cercacor, and began to use their knowledge to replicate the proven technology.
(Source: 9to5mac).
So, in the year of the release of the Apple Watch Series 6, Masimo decided to explode with Apple!
Masimo decisively sued Apple for poaching people under the pretext of communicating with its own executives, stealing trade secrets under the guise of sincere cooperation, and using these patents to manufacture and sell a variety of Apple Watch models.
Masimo said that Apple felt that the meetings were productive at the end of the discussions, but that the subsequent move was to start hiring key employees from Masimo and its spin-off, Ceracor, in a sense a targeted effort to obtain information and expertise.
(Source: Bloomrang).
But Apple, an old capital giant, must have been ready to bite back early.
Apple directThere has been a wave of counterclaims asserting that the Masimo W1 Sport, released in 2020, is essentially a shameless ripoff for the Apple Watch.
Judging from the information submitted by Apple, the two products are not exactly the same, but there are many similarities.
(Source: Apple Court Filing).
In short, both sides feel that they are reasonable, the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and the final outcome is naturally to go to court.
And then. Apple lost the case.
(Source: ipwatchdog).
On October 26 of this year, the ruling of the U.S. International Commission (ITC) finally came down.
Officials ruled that the two Apple Watch watches on sale infringed some of Masimo's blood oxygen sensor patents, and therefore asked Apple to "stop and terminate" the import and sale of its Apple Watch with blood oxygen detection function to the U.S. market.
Specifically, Apple violated Section 337 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930, violating:MasimoClaims 22 and 28 of the patent on 10912502, and648 claims and 30 provisions of the patent.
(Source: US States Patent).
Judging from the relevant patent publication documents, these two patents are based on visible light and infrared light emitters, which emit specific wavelengths of light into the human body, and receive the reflected light through the receiver to analyze the blood parameters of the human body.
In other words, it's really the set of detection methods that Guozi himself promotes.
So the first question comes: after the cut, the defeat of the fruit is a foregone conclusion, will this have any impact on domestic fruit fans?
The answer is no, and the ITC can only ban sales in Apple's own official stores.
In other words, even in the United States, you can still buy through third-party e-commerce platforms like AmazonApple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2.
Moreover, the scope of the suspension of this product is only in the US market, and in places that ITC can't control, such as Asia, Europe, and Latin America, it's not that the sea is wide and the sky is high and the birds can fly, and Apple can sell it as much as it wants, and it is not false at all.
It's just that I am very happy to think that American consumers may want to use the Hong Kong version of the parallel Apple Watch.
As for the solution, the fruit was prepared even earlier.
The verdict has only been down for less than a day, and before it has even been officially enforced in the official store, Bloomberg has already spread the news that Apple wants to change the ** bypass patent at the speed of light.
Anyway, Masimo doesn't approve of this approach, saying that the hardware of the Apple Watch needs to be changed, and software fixes won't solve the problem.
Hawkers, anyway, there will definitely be giants after that.
As for how it turned out....
I said that we should be spectators and continue to watch the fun of these capital giants.
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