We had reported yesterday that Apple had filed lawsuit against HTC over its 20 patents. Today, we have learned that even though Google is not mentioned in the lawsuit itself, the suit really is targeted at Google who sells Nexus One phone manufactured by HTC. And here is Google coming to back up HTC even though they are not the one being sued.

“We are not a party to this lawsuit,” the Mountain View, California, company said in a statement. “However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it.”

HTC is not a small company but relative to the sizes of Google and Apple, it’s small. So, why is HTC fighting Apple and Google’s war? Google used to the preferred partner of Apple. Google’s CEO used to be on Apple’s board. That has all changed when Google started making their own OS called Android and started selling their own phone, Nexus One, running the Android OS. Apple in return have decided to cut out Google as the default search engine on iPhones, and even bought a mobile advertising company to compete against Google.

Two big guys fighting over the market. Nothing new. What I’m interested in is, why are they using HTC to fight their war?

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