I’m an Apple guy. I love my iPhone and my iPad. I love the way they connect to each other. I loved when I got AirPods and they automatically synced with my devices. The next laptop I purchase, which won’t be for a long time because I’m poor, will be a Mac. But I have zero interest in owning an Apple Watch.
The Apple Watch keeps time, right? My iPhone does that. Oh, hey…you can call and text from your Apple Watch…which my iPhone does. You can track your sleeping patterns on an Apple Watch but I already know when I’m not sleeping which is never, thank you. The Apple Watch can keep track of your fitness but other devices do that for much less. I think the only reason to own an Apple Watch is to own an Apple Watch.
I’ve never felt the need to own the latest gadget or device and the only time I’ve ever owned the latest was when I purchased my iPhone 12 with my iPad Pro 12.9, which were both outdated about six minutes after I purchased them. My iPad was a career investment that took me two years to pay off, and I just paid off my iPhone. I have no desire to trade them in on the newest devices. Where are we now with iPhones, is it 14? I don’t know or really care. But I do know that the Apple Watch is at Series 9 and Ultra 2. How do I know this despite not having an Apple Watch? Because it’s in the news.
The US International Trade Commission banned Apple’s new watches from being imported into the country…until an appeals court temporarily halted the ban this morning…while I was drawing this cartoon, fuckers. If you really desire the latest Apple Watch, you probably have about eight weeks, maybe, to get one. I felt like I had eight minutes to publish this cartoon.
Why was there a ban in the first place? Because every Apple watch came with worms. No, because Apple’s newest watches violate patents registered to another company. In October, the US International Trade Commission ruled that Apple was in violation of a pulse oximeter patent, which uses light-based technology to read blood oxygen levels. Masimo, a medical device maker, holds the patent in question. Apple has been using this tech since Series 6. And if you don’t have a watch that can read your blood oxygen levels, then what kind of a loser are you?
I first heard this story yesterday and when I showed a friend this cartoon in its early stages, she had not heard of the Apple Watch ban. So I figure a bunch of my readers may not be aware of it either. Well, now you know.
I was in the middle of this when I got a CNN update, on my iPhone, of the ban being lifted. I decided to go with the cartoon anyway since I was already halfway through drawing a crowd scene.
My first idea was that the new migrant surge could be one way for Apple to smuggle its watches into the country. I say let the migrants in and hold off on the watches.
I know a surge of border crossings puts a burden on those communities at the border, but I don’t think it’s a negative or a great threat to our nation. For the most part, immigration is a huge advantage for this nation. Donald Trump is a greater threat to our nation than migrants.
I would much rather deal with migrants than MAGAts, no matter what time it is.
Music note: I listened to Godsmack, just the first album because that’s all I know and I don’t care to dive in deeper. I can listen to that once every couple of years.
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Apple steps on everyone, so why not on Masimo too! I hope David can defeat Goliath once again, and force Apple to pay for every Apple Watch that is sold during the lifting of the ban. They must have appealed to that judge in Texas that all the Repuplicabs are using. I’m sure a nice gift would get the parent owner ignored.
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“Donald Trump is a greater threat to our nation than migrants.” These words deserved to be enshrined on granite, perhaps on a pedestal that once supported a Confederate horse. To get that effort started I sent you a piddling $10 donation.
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