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Qualcomm Asks China To Ban the iPhone XS and XR (theverge.com)
After securing a win in court earlier this week to ban Apple's older phones, Qualcomm is trying to get the newer iPhones banned too. "According to the Financial Times, Qualcomm has now asked Chinese courts to issue an injunction that bans Apple from selling the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR within the country due to the same case of possible patent infringement," reports The Verge. From the report: The new filing will escalate the companies' legal conflict in China, where Apple has so far ignored a court-ordered sales ban. Apple claims the ban only applied to phones running iOS 11 and earlier. Since its phones have now been updated to iOS 12, Apple believes they can remain on sale, and so it has continued to sell them. According to the Financial Times, the Chinese court's order doesn't specifically mention any version of Apple's operating system. That doesn't necessarily mean Apple is wrong, but it does mean that there's more to be hashed out.
Uh huh. That's why if you search for "Fastest Smartphone" you get the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 followed by the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. Because Apple custom jobs are "smashing hand over first" other SOCs. Now, mind you, there are two variants of the Samsung Galaxy S9: one using Exnyos, and one using Snapdragon. Snapdragon - Qualcomm's SOC - is the fastest one.
So Apple gets beaten twice there, because their fastest phone can't compete with either variant of the Galaxy S9.
Samsung S9 has the fastest radio. Apple still beats it in performance benchmarks.