No, I answered it. You're extrapolating from a single minuscule datapoint from an anonymous stranger, all the way out to nationwide sales figures. Your numbers are nonsense, which is evident because Massimo is not doing $50b+ in revenue.
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I guess that is good then. The cost of producing is VERY low if disposable, so the royalty fee should be very low too. Probably won't be though.No, we use, and dispose of, 20-50 per day. They are single-patient use. They aren't sterile after opening, and can't be cleaned or autoclaved.
I'm not referring to the clip-on style sensors, which are reusable.
Masimo - LNCS Sensors
LNCS, or Low Noise Cabled Sensors, are available in a wide variety of designs to serve the needs of many types of patients. LNCS sensors are intended for hospitals that prefer to minimize clinician-user-interface change when upgrading their pulse oximetry to Masimo SET® and do not anticipate...www.masimo.com
Uhhhh. Hate to break it to you but absolutely not true. They work in exactly the same way. Only difference is the sensor on the watch measures on the wrist and the sensor in the hospital measures on the tip of a finger.
The use of laser light and analysis of the light reflected back to determine SPO2 is identical.
Also. There are sensors in the market that measure SPO2 on the base of your thumb (like a ring) and other fingers. They license a Massimo’s tech.
So everyone saying Massimo is just a patent troll they are not. I don’t like the company or its CEO but I like what Apple is doing far less.
ROFL. So let me get this straight…. Are ANY of us paying anything close to the “production cost” of a single bit of Apple tech???? Come on…. We all know pricing is determine by the seller plain and simple.
A fair asking price is what ever the heck they want it to be and if you don’t agree then please don’t make a single excuse about how it’s different for Apple because we all know it’s not.
If I went to a hospital and they strapped an Apple Watch on me to measure my stats, I would seriously walk out! And I wear a Series 8 daily.
The hyperbolic claim was more in a week than Apple produce in a year.
Of of course 78M is more than 50M, and your math totally works if a week has 365 days in it.
You most certainly did NOT.
Let me repeat it for you as it seems you have problems understanding;
There are 6129 hospitals,(just), in the US, multiplied by 35, (halfway between 20 and 50), multiplied by 365 = about 78M.
Is that not more than 50M?
There are TWO possible answers.
- Yes, it is more.
- No it's not more.
I did assume there was a rhetorical element to your question, but if you were genuinely asking then I do apologize for leaving you in such suspense. But hey, as a bonus everyone now knows how many days are in a week vs a year, so it wasn't a total waste.
As MacRumors has reported Apple has been granted a stay on the FTC ruling so sales of the Series 9 and Ultra 2 will resume for now.
If you want to play that game let’s look at Apple patents and they had some major ones invalidate and some massive joke patents. Do not use the invalidate number as an argument. The patents office as massive issue with giving out joke patents. Apple being one of the worse abusers of the system.
Guys… patents don’t cover ideas… they specific implementations. If you had a valid patent a the standard metal spring mouse trap, and I “invented” a plastic spring mouse trap that is otherwise identical… that’s a totally different valid patent.
Massimo’s FDA approved medical devices that it markets and sells to medical professionals have zero to do with anything related to Apple health focused consumer products marketed and sold directly to end users from commercial shopping outlets.
The FDA approved disposable medial sensors have zero to do with the durable health trends tracking sensors in an Apple Watch. One tracks medical stats accurately for medical diagnoses. The other lets you know if maybe should see a doctor and ask for first.
Lastly, 10+ years ago when Apple asked Massimo for such a chips as the one they later developed, Massimo didn’t have one to sell them. They then asked for an insane amount to bring full DME grade sensors to the thing. (Totally missing the point and intent of the product.)
Massimo’s FDA approved medical devices that it markets and sells to medical professionals have zero to do with anything related to Apple health focused consumer products marketed and sold directly to end users from commercial shopping outlets.
The FDA approved disposable medial sensors have zero to do with the durable health trends tracking sensors in an Apple Watch. One tracks medical stats accurately for medical diagnoses. The other lets you know if maybe should see a doctor and ask for first.
Lastly, 10+ years ago when Apple asked Massimo for such a chips as the one they later developed, Massimo didn’t have one to sell them. They then asked for an insane amount to bring full DME grade sensors to the thing. (Totally missing the point and intent of the product.)
Apple is not even in the same ballpark as the seed companies. They are actually patenting genes. They have patents on genetically engineered strains of corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, tomatoes, etc, etc, etc.
A patent troll is a non practicing entity.
This company apparently had engineers to steal, which means not a patent troll.