Apple complies with German court order, halting regional iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 sales

As if Apple didn’t have enough on its plate dealing with weaker than anticipated demand for its newest iPhone generation, which was partly blamed for a big downward revision of the company’s latest revenue forecast, Qualcomm took its legal war against its erstwhile ally to the next level yesterday.

By posting bonds of over $1.5 billion required by a German court in a December 20 ruling, the semiconductor giant forced Apple to halt local sales of a number of older iPhones found to be in infringement of some of Qualcomm’s patents relating to the handsets’ power-saving technology. 

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