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the fight for the blood oxygen feature
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someone I I I know was just asking me
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about that this week Griffin they're
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like hey is that feature still work in
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the new Apple watch Ultra and I was like
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I don't think so bro you might want to
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get the version one for that
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reason yeah so um fight over blood
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oxygen feature cuts into Apple watch
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sales apparently your friend isn't alone
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there Apple watch shipments dropped
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almost 20% year-over-year in the first
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quarter of 2024 Market analysts blame
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some of the decline on Apple being
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temporar temporarily forced to Halt Sals
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and of course removing the blood oxygen
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sensor in case you forgot Apple is
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involved in a long running patent
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dispute with masimo Corporation and a
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sibling company uh that I haven't heard
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of before cusur Laboratories yeah I I
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remember how that's pronounced the two
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medical device makers have convinced
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Court after court that the way the pulse
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oximeter inside the Apple watch works
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infringes on their technology Apple had
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to stop selling Apple watch series and
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Ultra 2 in the United States late last
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year there were several subsequent
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starts and stops I think one of them was
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like conveniently just after the
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Christmas weekend which played well in
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Apple's favor but but when sales resumed
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for good in January 18 Apple had been
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forced to disable blood oxygen
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monitoring software in the new units
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they still ship with the all the same
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Hardware in there but it's just uh
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turned off in software and in the first
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quarter of this year Apple watch
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19.1% compared to the same period last
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year year according to analyst.
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IDC this is kind of interesting because
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we are just a few months away from the
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next hardware version of the Apple watch
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shipping in September which begs the
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question like are they going to is the
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Apple Watch series 10 and Ultra 3 are
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they going to like still have blood
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oxygen Hardware in them but just like
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the software disabled surely apple is
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going to you know how are they going to
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advertise a watch that says oh yeah this
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one explicitly has less features in it
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you know well t does it they just ship
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the hardware and they're like hey
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eventually we're going to turn this on
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they've been doing that for like 12
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years at least at least Apple didn't
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make you pay extra for the uh blood
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oxygen software yeah they didn't charge
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$15,000 for the hardware
