We already knew that the German court had Banned from selling certain iPhone models in Germany due to patent issues Apple y Qualcomm they have between them. The sentence agreed with the chip manufacturer, forcing Apple to withdraw the models from the market until it presented a valid solution. Well, it already has it, and it is none other than manufacturing new models.
A new chip for Germany
The problem centered on some chips supplied by Intel and Qorvo that infringed certain Qualcomm patents. The order was very clear; With those chips inside, the iPhone couldn't go on sale, hence the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 disappeared from the shelves. This withdrawal has been active since last December, and it seems that Apple has already implemented the solution that will allow the models to be put on sale again.
The solution is none other than a new chip that avoids the patent problem, a new processor that is already underway and that will arrive implanted in the new iPhones in the next four weeks.
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China is still pending and the United States has preferred not to get involved
To this day, Qualcomm has managed to take Apple to court in Germany, China and the United States, being only in the first country where it has managed to withdraw the products from stores. In China the process advanced, but for now a final sentence is missing that knocks down the sales of Cupertino products, which could even include the iPhone XR and iPhone XS. The company received the recommendation to remove them, but convinced that they were not infringing anything they continued to sell units as if nothing had happened.
In the United States, however, they have confirmed that the chips included in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 are violating patents belonging to Qualcomm, but with the idea of ​​not hindering competition, they have decided not to apply any sentence and leave sales as and how are they.
For now it is unknown if this new manufacturing will serve to bring the new models to the whole world or if they are simply intended for the German market (although possibly the latter), but what is clear is that Apple had no choice but to solve the problem. root problem to continue selling in Germany. Will this measure reach other countries? The next to fall could be China, so we will keep an eye on future developments.