Google surely has an opinion on the bombshell news that Apple is suing HTC for patent infringement, right? I mean, they are who Apple is really after — it isn't HTC's Windows Mobile 6.5 phones is it?
Except nobody officially asked Google how they felt about it. So they got proactive and actually sent out a comment to their mouthpiece of late, TechCrunch:
“We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it,” a Google spokesperson emailed us.
It is extremely interesting to note that the lawsuit comes exactly a month to the day after Google enabled multi-touch on its flagship Nexus One phone via a software update which I chronicled in a post ca