Apple Stops Online Sales and Repairs of Smartwatches in Patent Dispute
Apple stopped selling its latest smartwatches, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, in its online store Thursday (Dec. 21) due on to an ongoing patent dispute.The company will no longer provide repair services for out-of-warranty watch models either, Bloomberg reported Thursday.The sales ban on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 was imposed by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) after ruling that Apple had infringed upon two health-technology patents related to blood oxygen sensing ...