Apple's lawyers could pounce on Samsung plans to release white Galaxy S II

Apple can't sue anyone over so called 'copying' the iPad anyway, since there were pads on the market since before Apple even made the first iPod (yes, iPod!). These pads are nothing more than a Tablet PC. The only reason why iPad has had such success is simply because of the Apple name, not because of the actual product itself. Apple products are more of a fashion statement than for actual functionality, they know that if they lose this fashion status to functionality, such as the Samsung pad or the Galaxy S II etc over iPhone 4, that they'll very quickly lose market share.

I'm guessing Apple must feel really threatened by Samsung and the success of its Galaxy S2. Its up to Apple to make a better product instead of bashing everyone else that competes with them. I'm certainly not feeling warm and fuzzy enough to buy an IPhone anytime real soon. Bring on the competition!!!

You managed to make so many mistakes there that there is considerable doubt that you've ever been within 1000 miles of PARC, never mind worked there.

Xerox's VC division got Apple in to see the Alto system in exchange for the right to buy $1M in pre-IPO stock. They WANTED Apple to make a commercial version of the technology (Alto was horribly expensive and impractical, it cost $300 just for a mouse for example) and stood to make significant gains from it. Xerox tried their arm at the time of the MS-Apple trial and the Judge threw their case out of court because of this. Apple had paid Xerox for their ideas and built on them. The result was quite a lot different from the original Xerox design, and even the Alto developers admit this.

Apple's objection to Windows wasn't that MS had created a GUI, but rather that they had copied Apple ideas that didn't exist in the Alto (MS did a lot of early application software development for the Mac, and "borrowed" heavily from the experience). Redrawing uncovered parts of a background window for example. Alto only repainted the current active window.

Apple lost that case, and that taught them a lesson - make sure that their ideas are protected as much as possible.

Linux/Android falls foul of MS because they use elements that are patented by them. FAT32 for example is covered by MS IP. If they want to restrict themselves to file systems like EXT3 then they don't need to pay for it, but you can't read/write that from a Windows desktop which limits the market somewhat.

Apple is suing Samsung not because they sell smart phones, it's mostly because the phones and tablets that Samsung DO make are deliberately designed to look like Apple products. Unlike the MS case they are covered by design patents. If a company DOESN'T protect their patents then they lose them, and shareholders don't like that kind of thing.

BYTE MAGAZINE IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES ( ACTUALLY '78-79)REPORTED HOW NO ONE BUT SOME KIDS AT APPLE WERE INTERESTED IN THE ICONS AS WELL AS THE GRAPHICAL ENVIRON OF THE XEROX STAR. THEY WERE CURIOUS AS TO HOW IT ( STAR) INTERACTED WITH THE REST OF THE SCREEN( THE ""NEW" POINT & CLICK THING". IN GENERAL, JOB'S PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW, WHAT MADE IT ALL WORK WITH THE MOUSE, POINT&CLICK & ICONS, SMALLTALK, ETC. SO THE KIND PEOPLE AT XEROX FUNDED, PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER, ( PARC) NOT ONLY TOOK THEIR ( PARC'S) OWN TIME TIME TO SHOW APPLE'S MOB HOW, BUT WERE PROUD ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND IT ALL. I WAS WORKING THERE.. MID-LATE 80'S. BUT YOU GO HERE TO WIKIPEDIA... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa . SO LET'S GET THIS RIGHT... YOU ( JOB'S MOB) RIP XEROX. PATENT THE HECK OF YEARS OF EFFORT. MAKE BILLIONS OUT OF IT. THEN SUE SAMMY ( SAMSUNG), HTC, MOTOROLA, ET AL.FOR WHAT? HYPOCRITE!!! AND MS DIDN'T EVEN HAVE AN OS WHEN IBM CAME KNOCKING. SO MS BLIND-SIDED SEATTLE COMPUTING (SC) FOR THEIR IP. GAVE THEM DIDDLEY FOR IT ( NO PROFIT SHARING FOR SC RIGHT BOYS?) MS THEN RIPS OFF APPLE.. ER I MEAN PARC, AND REVERSE ENGINEERS A "winblows", and sues anyone "copying the look and feel" OF what is really a SCREWED version of PARC'S ( XEROX')LOOK AND FEEL!! OUTRAGEOUS!!! THEN, COMES AFTER ANDROID!!! LINUX MS ENEMY!! (LINUX HAS NAUGHT TO DO WITH MS AT ALL!!) FOR WHAT???!!! OH. ONLY AFTER BUYING IP FROM OTHERS!!! YOU SEE GATES MAFIA'S, PLAN?? I JUST... DON'T ... GET IT!?? WHY?? EVIL!! INSANE!!! CAN THIS MADNESS NOT BE STOPPED!!!??? NEWS FLASH: I JUST READ MS WANTS ( THIS IS SERIOUS)(GETS?) $5 FROM EACH UNIT HTC SELLS/ MAKES, BUT WANTS $12.50!!!! FOR AN OS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH APPLE OR MS!!!!! NO LOOK, NO FEEL. BUT WAIT IT ALL WAS PAID FOR BY / BELONGS TO XEROX IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!! MS & APPLE ARE WORSE THAN SCHOOL BULLIES. AT LEAST THERE, YOU KNEW YOU COULD GO HOME AT DAYS END!!!!! IDEA!! BOYCOTT MS. PERIOD. APPLE TOO. SERIOUSLY!!! THESES PEOPLE NEED TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON!!BY THE WAY MS, GO TO OS SCHOOL, BUILD AN OS THAT WORKS. YOUR PHONE OS'S SUCK!!! THEN YOU WONT HAVE TO EARN A LIVING ON OTHERS SWEAT!! ( IDEA!! GOTO GOOGLE) COWARDS!!!!!! APPLE I WORKED AT XEROX DURING THAT TIME, I SAW THE STAR. AS WELL AS THE NETWORKING SYSTEM USED BY XRX. YOU TOO, CANT TELL ME DIDDLY. YOU STOLE XEROX' STAR "LOOK AND FEEL". PERIOD, PERIOD. PERIOD!! MS YOU STOLE, YOU STOLE AND YOU STILL STEAL. YOU BOTH OWE PARC. AS WELL AS OTHERS... I'M WAITING!!!!!!

You invented something fashionable for this season, everyone want it and buy it - all other producers MUST NOT just copy without royalties and penalties. THAT'S THE RULE WHICH ALL HAVE TO FOLLOW AND ENFORCE.

So, of course Samsung SGSII white is a steal. Of course Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant is a steal too. As are its TWiz and tablets. All that is dirty copying of fashionable leader by former ugly gray brick producers. And I know and FEEL that myself, 99 out of 100 people asked me if my SGS Vibrant is an iPhone LOL. They are sincerely surprized!

So go Apple, go, SUE each and every copycat NON-STOP, DAY AND NIGHT. These morons do not invent a sh!t, they only steal or mimic others. Apple employed a lot of them directly and indirectly. Now irony is that they are having unemployment rate around 3.3% while California has 20% and America actually 15%.

Sue Apple Sue ! GO ! Do not stop ! Do not listen n#ts who have no clue

/* I do not own anything of Apple and have and plan to buy more Samsung stuff. But principle is principle: no stealing */

Gotta love fanboy Bingo.

Apple promised to protect its copyrights and patents on the iPhone, and they meant it. Sorry, all you "also rans". Go invent a unique product of your own.

I'm suing BOTH companies on a base of racism!
You should not have these coloured phones like "black" or "White" (nor "red" or "yellow") since Apple seems to have in an excess of 70 billion dollars I'll think I'll settle for a mere 100 billion dollars instead of a trillion I think I deserve because this terrible racism made me loose all reason and capability of sensible and modest thinking. I think I'm infected with the famous infamous "fanboy" virus or with something worse than that: the Stevejobs Virus of Immunity Pride and Superiority aka SVIPS

Unless Samsung decide to release a white IPhone themselves then I can't see what Apple have to complain about if Samsung want to release a white version of the own Galaxy phone.
They don't own the copyright to the colour white do they? LOL

Before everyone gets up in the air with Apple for suing Samsung over this, read the article carefully. This is The Inquirer S*@t stirring for want of a better definition. Slow news day?

Asus produced white mobile smart phone P535 long long time ago even before first IP. That was window mobile time...apple you copies taiwan

There's a lot of ifs, mights, and coulds in your article. I didn't see any proof that this is going to happen, only speculation. Seems like this was written to flame Apple and rally people up against something that may or may not happen. Way to go o_O

some rabid article saying that Apple MIGHT sue if Sansung release a white GS2, without explaining why the current suit doesn't cover it, and the Fandroids go crazy and shout how disgusting it is that Apple are doing this? They are even madder than the journo.

HAH... Sorry Inquirer you need to change the color of your page to a more "off-white" it reflects badly on our white iphone and may cause sales to decline...

Somehow Apple invented the color white, that must have been just after inventing the rectangle, like in their lawsuit against htc..

This proofs how afraid apple is of SAMSUNG, which is slowly taking over there market share. If they had to sue, there was quite a few white devices before GALAXY S II, One of them is Sprint HTC EVO white version, also Blackberry bold, Blackberry curve,and many more. This is so pathetic that U.S top companies like Apple intends to monopolize only by blocking international companies like Samsung and Nokia into their market. Really sad close minded bullying business mentality...

many manufacturers release products in different colours so that people can have a small bit of individuality to the otherwise mass-produced items. have apple copyrighted the colour white now?

HTC also makes white smartphones.

I didn't realise Samsung had copied the iPad 3. I wasn't aware that it had even been released yet!!