Masimo CEO Joe Kiani, who managed to ban the sale of certain Apple Watch models in the US, made a surprise decision to resign announced.
For those who missed it, it’s because of the decision made by health-focused technology company Masimo Apple For a long time, it was not possible to sell Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in official US-based sales channels. In the incident centered on the sensor used in Apple Watches that measures the oxygen level in the blood, Apple was ruled by the ITC (United States International Trade Commission) to have violated Masimo’s patents. Due to this situation, Apple, which cannot sell in physical stores as well as online, It later resumed selling the watches, but had to disable the blood oxygen sensors in software.. In a surprise move on top of all this, Joe Kiani has stepped down as CEO. Michelle Brennan has been appointed as interim CEO in his place. It is not yet known why Kiani has decided to resign.
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In the much talked about topic, Joe Kiani said, “The blood oxygen sensor on Apple Watches was already unreliable. Customers are better off without it.” Apple responded to this statement without delay. The company said, Kiani’s claims are falsethe blood oxygen feature of their watches can provide accurate measurements and in some cases can save lives he had said.
With Apple on this issue He stated that he did not have a personal meeting. and full for the ban Kiani, who is known to have spent more than $100 millionexplained why he was fighting Apple in an interview he gave to The Wall Street Journal: “People were telling me I was crazy and that I couldn’t go up against Apple. They were telling me they had unlimited resources, you couldn’t fight them. But nobody told them [Apple] “He wasn’t against it. I thought if I could do that, I could change Apple for the better.”
The company before Apple Nellcor And Royal Philips companies engaged in similar patent-related lawsuits and received a total of He managed to make more than $1 billion. “If I can stop the most powerful company in the world from continuing to behave badly, that will have a greater impact on the world than anything else I have ever done.” who says Joe Kiani, managed to leave its mark on the end of 2023 with the steps it took. Meanwhile, last month Apple Watch the key figure in the ban “Marcelo Lamego” It turned out that it was. All the details about that matter from our news here you can reach.