Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, December 20th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, now some iPhones can't be sold in Germany. Is there an iPad pro bendgate brewing?

Drones shut down a major UK airport and why Carlton from the Fresh Prince is suing the makers of Fortnite. Here's what you missed today

in the world of tech. The legal tussle between Apple and Qualcomm has metastasized.

A court in Germany has granted an injunction to Qualcomm banning Apple from selling some iPhone models in Germany that use chips from Intel and parts from a

supplier named Corvo. Apple said that it plans to appeal this ruling of course, but that during the appeals process it would stop

selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 models at Apple's 15 retail stores in Germany.

All iPhone models remain available through carriers and third-party resellers

throughout Germany. To reiterate, Apple and Qualcomm have been fighting a major legal battle in multiple countries and there was

recently that injunction in China which as we said we think was the reason for

those software tweaks in the most recent iOS update.

And clearly Qualcomm is pressing every legal leverage button it can, in every jurisdiction

it can on every facet of this dispute that it can. Here was Qualcomm's statement from

Qualcomm's general counsel, Don Rosenberg. Quote, two respected courts in two

different jurisdictions just in the past two weeks have now confirmed the value of Qualcomm's patents and declared

Apple an infringer, ordering a ban on iPhones in the important markets of Germany and China." And speaking of Apple, some customers have been reporting that their 2018 iPad pros have a very

slight bend in their aluminum chassis, sometimes right out of the box brand new and Apple has actually

confirmed to the verge that this can be the case the bend is apparently due to a side effect of the cooling process during manufacturing.

It shouldn't worsen over time if your device has a bend in it or affect that device's performance,

Apple says. And officially Apple says it does not consider the bend to be a defect.

Now when I say slight bend I mean slight in the second link in the show

notes that will take you to the story on this. The verge has a photo showing

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