Apple in Race Against Time: Tweaking Apple Watch to Avoid US Ban Amid Patent Battle

Masimo’s CEO, Joe Kiani, is open to playing nice but spills the tea that no talks have happened yet. He throws shade on the idea that a software update can untangle this mess, stressing that their patents zoom in on hardware, not software. Now, shaking up the Apple Watch hardware? That’s a whole different ball game. It’s not as easy as a software tweak, needing ITC nods and facing a months-long saga of manufacturing and shipping for spruced-up versions.