Are the technologies that Apple uses on its products all their own? No, if we are to believe the testimonies of several companies who say they have been plundered by the Californian giant. According to the stories told by leaders, inventors, investors and lawyers Wall Street Journalthe company always goes about it the same way.
The “kiss of death”
Apple’s strategy would be summarized as follows: take an interest in the company and its products first, abruptly end the negotiations, poach its employees by promising them bigger salaries, then integrate the technologies into its products. , without the company contacted having been contacted.
Joe Kiani, founder of Masimo Corp. – a company that makes blood oxygen measuring devices and claims to be among Apple’s victims – likens the Cupertino company’s first approach to a “kiss of death”.
“First of all, you’re all excited. Then you realize the long-term plan is to do it yourself and take it all,” he expressed himself.
According to him, the technology of blood oxygen level measurement (oximeter) introduced in the Apple Watch Series 6 in 2020 is owned by Masimo Corp., and in the same year it filed a lawsuit against Apple.
Other companies, including AlveCor, a manufacturer of devices for obtaining an ECG, made similar comments. The latter accuses the firm at the apple of having plagiarized his technologies to design the electrocardiogram (ECG) function used on its connected watches.
For its part, Apple reacted to these accusations by indicating pay license fees to companies, and in turn accusing the start-ups that have lodged a complaint against him of copying his products or stifling competition.
Source : Wall Street Journal
