You may not be familiar with Buffett. He has a resounding nickname: "The God of Stocks." As the current major shareholder of Apple, his personal computer usage habits will not change due to the outside world.
Now, Buffett shows off the mobile phone he uses, which is a $20 Samsung SCH-U320 flip phone. It is currently selling for $20 to $30 on Ebay (approximately 130-200 yuan).
Buffett and his company currently hold 5.5% of Apple shares, but he himself is not very interested in replacing the iPhone. Last year, Apple CEO Cook gave Buffett a mobile phone, but he left the iPhone X at home to sleep in. Buffett said that he had not yet figured out how to set it up.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said he would fly to Omaha to help Buffett set up a new iPhone. Cook said in an interview last year: "I told him that I will go to Omaha personally to provide him with technical support."
For Qualcomm in 2019, taking out the patent banner is to win over Apple was able to get back to the negotiating table and they are now working on the US market.
It is reported that a judge of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently ruled that Apple infringed on a Qualcomm patent and recommended a ban on some iPhones involving the patent. If this patent is eventually ruled to be valid by Qualcomm, Apple will be very passive.
The official also recommended issuing a limited exclusion order and a restraining order against Apple. It should be noted that this is not the final ruling, but Qualcomm’s victory in this round means that the ITC affirmed the value of Qualcomm’s patents. This ruling may determine the final outcome of the core litigation cases between Qualcomm and Apple in the future.
Looking back at the protracted patent war between the two parties, Apple initially filed a lawsuit in January 2017 on Qualcomm’s alleged “antitrust” grounds. The reason is that Apple asked Qualcomm to reduce its patent fees and wanted the latter to refund nearly US$1 billion in patent licensing fee rebates.
Apple believes that terminal manufacturers such as smartphones have purchased chips from Qualcomm and pay Qualcomm a certain percentage of patent licensing fees for each product sold. This is an unfair business practice.
Qualcomm naturally did not buy it and launched a counterattack. As time goes by, especially with the advancement of court proceedings in various places, other facts have gradually emerged. Courts and institutions from the United States, China, Germany and other countries have ruled that Apple infringed Qualcomm’s patents.