The Masimo Freedom has all the tech Apple can't use
  • Masimo, the company that sued Apple over patent infringement, has unveiled its own blood oxygen monitoring smartwatch called the Masimo Freedom.
  • The Masimo Freedom is a health-focused device that can track blood oxygen levels, hydration index, respiration rate, pulse rate variability, pulse rate, steps, and detect falls.
  • The smartwatch is currently in prototype stage and will be available for sale later this year at a price of $999.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
    829·
    10 months ago

    You’re correct that they don’t offer low end but their products are still over priced for what you get.

    Yet, no one offers anything comparable for less.

    • LucidLethargy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      10 months ago

      Have you looked? I mean, that question is rhetorical… No, you haven’t.

      You should check out the competition. Samsung makes some great devices, razer makes some great devices. Even Google makes solid competition, though I prefer others over them.

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
        54·
        10 months ago

        Have you looked? I mean, that question is rhetorical… No, you haven’t.

        Of course. Name one manufacturer that makes anything comparable to a MacBook Pro with M1

        You should check out the competition. Samsung makes some great devices, razer makes some great devices. Even Google makes solid competition, though I prefer others over them.

        Unfortunately, I have intimate experience with all of those and more. I’m a mobile developer, we buy a lot of phones for testing purposes. We literally have an entire closet full of phones, every even remotely popular model, we’ve got it.

        The stuff I’m working on is quite demanding, think computer vision related. We have to make it work on both iOS and Android and the latter is quite a pain in the ass. Device fragmentation is a bitch and performance is significantly below that of iOS devices, even on the high-end models (and we also have to support the low-end stuff). So on Android we have to choose less advanced algorithms, process at a lower internal resolution and frame rate, stuff like that.

        I wish Android manufacturers got their shit together and catch up to Apple. It would make my life so much easier if they did, but for now there is a pretty big performance gap.

        • CucumberFetishEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Compared to MacBook m1 pro, there are plenty of better options. Asus zephyrus lineup for example.

          Yes, the m1 has less bugs with peripherals and software than the 2019 MacBook pro, but it is still an absolute pain to use for software dev

          • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            At my company devs can choose between a MacBook Pro and a equivalent Windows laptop. None of the devs chose Windows.

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
        311·
        10 months ago

        You’re saying they should have included the stand and raised the price of the monitor by $1k ?

        The target audience for this monitor usually doesn’t need a stand, so it makes sense to sell it separately.

        • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          10 months ago

          The stand costs like 15$ to produce (including machine time, material cost and shipping) I bet you can find dozens of chinese clones for under 100$ that function equally as well or better.