[dijit]

I don't think anyone is seriously considering that, I think the broader point is that by outsourcing and being a tad greedy they have shot themselves in the foot inadvertently.

Of course, they'll have run the numbers and the cost of this fiasco is likely many-many orders of magnitude below the savings from using cheap labour.

[hn_throwaway_99]

They didn't shoot themselves in the foot, by any measure. If the watches were made in the US, Apple could still be sued in federal court for patent infringement. Masimo likely just filed in the ITC because it (correctly) gave them the most leverage (a sales injunction) for the smallest possible legal cost. Apple is going to appeal, so it's still going to get sorted out in federal court in any case.