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When Apple first filed the legal documents necessary to sue Samsung for copyright infringement, the company probably didn’t anticipate the lengthy legal fight that it was up against. Of course, Apple has a sordid history of suing its competitors, but with the future of the mobile phone market in the balance, Samsung is not taking this battle lying down. In a move that shocked even the most experienced legal experts, Samsung has asked the United States government to ban Apple from bringing in the new iPhone from overseas. In essence, Samsung may have just delayed the release of the iPhone 5 indefinitely.

Samsung may actually have good cause to ask US officials to block the sale of the future iPhone 5. Apple and Samsung may compete in the mobile phone industry, but Apple is also one of Samsung’s main customers. Because Samsung is one of the largest manufacturers of memory chips in the world, virtually every other mobile phone manufacturer depends on them to build their devices. This means that Samsung stands to lose almost as much as it stands to gain. By preventing Apple from importing new versions of the iPhone and the iPad, it will effectively be losing one of its best customers.

However, if Apple is successful in blocking Samsung from selling its line of mobile phones, the company will lose a substantial portion of its profits. If Samsung’s request to prevent Apple from importing the iPhone is granted, both companies may end up making a deal outside of the courtroom in order to prevent a potentially damaging stalemate.

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Considering the fact that Apple makes just about every other electronic device known to man, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for the company to begin to manufacture television sets. After all, consumers know that Apple makes pricey but high quality products. There might not seem like there is a link between the new iCloud service to be launched by Apple this fall and the television manufacturing industry, but there is. First, Apple starting applying for TV specific patents, then the company began hinting that its iCloud service could store much more than just digital music files. Since users can already watch movies and videos on the iPod and iPhone, it seems that the only reason that Apple would release the iPad would be to compete with other manufacturers. Apparently, Apple’s real plans are two-fold.

In other words, Apple might not necessarily need to start building television sets in order to get into the TV industry. All users would need to own is one of Apple’s many mobile electronics and a subscription to iCloud in order to watch television programming. Google already tried its hand in the TV industry with disastrous results, however, Apple is looking to expand the options of users, not reduce them.

It will likely be several years before an Apple manufactured TV makes it on the market, if ever. With so many different manufacturers competing in the same space, the television market might be the one area in which Apple is completely and utterly out of its league.

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