Recently, Apple took the Christmas holiday time, quietly removed all the products of the Nokia subsidiary Withings, including iOS compatible Body Cardio scales, wireless blood pressure monitors and so on.

The time to get off the shelf is still unknown, but now things with Withings are not visible on Apple's official website and in physical stores. Apple moves fast enough, not only is the product missing, everything else related to Withings disappears from their database, such as iOS input method "Withings", "Body Cardio Scale", "Wireless Blood Pressure" The automatic associations of Monitor (Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor) and "Smart Body Analyzer" are all gone.

Apple's move looks clean and neat, but the reason for it is much more complicated than it seems.

Withings is a company specializing in medical health related accessories. It has been happily cooperating with Apple for more than two years and has maintained a good relationship of mutual benefit. Although some of its products compete with Apple – such as the Steel Smart Watch, outside of the restricted area, most of Withings' products are tagged with iOS-compatible labels, enjoying the many benefits of the Apple Store.

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The Withings Body Cardio smart scale once sold on iPhone Accessories has disappeared

Former mobile phone giant Nokia lost its competitive edge in today's market, but it seems to be interested in smart medical health equipment companies and is increasing investment in this area. In April of this year, Nokia acquired Withings for a transaction price of $192 million, after which the products of Withings continued to be sold in Apple stores. However, the recent patent dispute seems to have changed this partnership.

Last week, Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple in Germany and the United States, accusing Apple of infringing 32 patents in the 2013 and 2016 agreements; and then upgrading to 11 countries for a total of 40 lawsuits.

"With our years of technical investment, research and development, Nokia has laid the foundation for many of today's mobile device technologies. Apple's products are also very beneficial." Nokia's patent business director Ilkka Rahnasto said in a statement, "Over the years After negotiating with Apple and striving for the patent fees we deserved, we decided to take action to protect our rights."

Apple countered Nokia with a paper antitrust lawsuit, calling them a patent conspiracy and deleting some of the 2011 contracts (then reported at a transaction price of $720 million) to take advantage of intelligence from Apple. Product suppliers "blackmail more fees"; they also split their patents into several parts, and colluded with Acacia, Conversant and other patent organizations to split the authorized profits.

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