Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, December 10th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today iPhone sales are blocked in China. Apple's getting into the A&R business, maybe we should pump the

brakes on the e-scooter hype and forget the notch 2019 might be the year of the whole punch.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

A Chinese court has granted Qualcomm an injunction against Apple and is banning the import and sale of all iPhones in China models 6S through 10. The court cited infringement of two Qualcomm patents, one related to

application management on smartphones and the other relating to photo

management on smartphones.

Apple stock opened down 2% this morning on the news and this afternoon Apple of course

announced it was appealing the ruling.

So you're probably aware Qualcomm and Apple have a whole slew of lawsuits, litigation issues,

on patents, on contractual disputes, all sorts of things.

There's that big lawsuit in a San Diego court

that we thought might get settled between the two companies

and then wasn't going to be settled

and then the date for that trial was set for April.

This story was broken this morning by Enafrid in Axios.

And you know how they have those little B smart graphs in their stories? Well here's the B smart

graph for this one quote. Companies will often change their software in such

cases where possible to avoid infringement rather than halt sales of a key product."

So Apple could do a quick fix here, possibly, to avoid being shut out of China.

But there are other factors. to avoid being shut out of China.

But there are other factors to consider here.

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