If you haven’t heard, Apple is now suing HTC over a group of its patents. What I did find interesting is that Apple was having “top-secret” discussions with C-level people before the suit was filed (according to a post at Fortune).

Why HTC?  Erica Ogg at CNET thinks it is because of a close HTC and Google relationship (and frenemy stuff).  Philip Elmer-DeWitt thinks it may be that there were few, if any, suppliers problems that would crop up.  John Paczkowski believes it may be that HTC has the fewest number of patents and may be the low hanging fruit, however Nilay Patel thinks that analysis may be unconvincing (same post).

Personally, I think it is the fact that HTC has established itself as the Android purveyor/expert and they appear to be smaller than the other companies.  They’ve built the Nexus One, G1 and a slew of other devices.  The only other Android maker that people know is Motorola because of its Droid.

–Ben

Sources:  Fortune, CNet, All Things Digital, Phandroid, HTCPedia

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