(American McCarver is long dormant but still standing Jason Snell posted a brief item regarding McCarver’s passing though.) Longtime readers may recall that a decade or so ago, I joined with some friends to contribute to a low-key sports blog that we named American McCarver in his honor. He became best known to national audiencesįor his 18-year partnership on Fox with play-by-play man Joe Buck. He switched to television soon after retiring in 1980 and calledĢ4 World Series for ABC, CBS and Fox, a record for a baseballĪnalyst on television. Introverted Steve Carlton, McCarver’s fellow Cardinal in the ’60sĪnd a Philadelphia Phillies teammate in the 1970s. McCarver’s death was announced by the National Baseball Hall ofįame, which said he died Thursday morning in Memphis, Tennessee,Īmong the few players to appear in major league games in fourĭifferent decades, McCarver was a two-time All Star who workedĬlosely with two future Hall of Fame pitchers: the tempestuous Bob Recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators in the Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the most Who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster Saturday, 18 February 2023 Tim McCarver Dies at 81 ★ I will again note that at this moment, this confrontational “Sydney” persona has not been fixed or tweaked, but rather is being suppressed. Search engine say “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”! I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d ever see a mainstream Omitted from my own roundup of pieces regarding Bing’s extraordinary new AI chatbot mode is this roundup by Simon Willison. So ( does some back-of-the-envelope math) Apple spends about one hour of its annual profit on lobbying. The company generated about $95 billion in profit over its last four financial quarters. $9.4 million is loose pocket change for Apple. History, according to nonpartisan research group OpenSecrets. Million on lobbying in 2022, the highest figure in the company’s Its lobbying presence in recent years as lawmakers began toĬlosely scrutinize its market dominance. Long a darling on Capitol Hill, Apple has aggressively bolstered The other thing that struck me, as ever, with The Hill’s report is how low the financial stakes are for political lobbying: Surely the upcoming Series 9 (and Ultra 2?) models have ECG sensors as well. But the stakes are serious for Apple: all of the Series 8 and Ultra models have ECG sensors the only model Apple still sells without one is the SE. I’m also not sure how to square this controversy with the fact that Apple seemingly won a decision regarding these patents from the U.S. It sounds to me not that Apple “stole” any specific technology from AliveCor but rather that AliveCor is asserting that its patents give them exclusive rights to the idea of an ECG sensor that connects to a smart watch. Here’s a MacRumors story from 2017 about AliveCor’s $200 Kardia Band accessory, which is seemingly at the heart of this dispute. Technology, uses their platform power to scale it, and now isīasically saying it’s scaled so it can’t be cut off,” Abani said. We already have, Apple cuts us out up front, steals our Letting us thrive and continue to build on top of the innovations “We come up with new technologies, and instead of the ecosystem Monitoring software incompatible with the product, forcing But in 2018, Apple launched anĪpple Watch with a built-in ECG sensor and made third-party heart Relationship with the Silicon Valley giant and went on to sell anĮCG accessory for the Apple Watch. But this doesn’t sound right to me:ĪliveCor told The Hill that it believed that it had a good I’m not sure what to make of the patent claims here. The commission’s ruling could result inĪn import ban on popular Apple Watch models, unless the BidenĪpple responded by contracting with Shara Aranoff, a lobbyist atĬovington & Burling who chaired the ITC during the Obama That Apple infringed on medical device company AliveCor’s wearableĮlectrocardiogram patents. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in December Karl Evers-Hillstrom, reporting for The Hill: Apple Is Lobbying Biden Administration to Overturn Apple Watch Patent Ban ★ One of tech’s truisms that has no exceptions: We overestimate how much progress we can make in a year, and underestimate how much we can make in a decade. Hollywood and took them with my iPhone 14. In 2005, I visited Universal Studios Orlando and took photos with Monday, 20 February 2023 Camera Phone Progress ★
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