Google has emailed Techcrunch and officially stated that they will back HTC against Apple for the patent infringement lawsuits.

“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,” as stated in the email from Google spokesperson.

General believe that Apple action is actually targeted at Google’s Android.  After Eric Schmidt left Apple’s board and Google’s decision to turn on multitouch for Android few months ago, Apple fires the first shot to HTC (or Google?)  That marks the end of the buddy relationship between Apple and Google.

May be Apple is afraid of Android will destroy their smartphone phone market like how PC destroy the Mac market years ago.  And may be that’s why Steve Jobs is doing this to prevent history to repeat itself.

But Apple, please stop suing people around for patent infringement and concentrate on bring better products to the consumers.  I like your products and creativities but not the things you do.

[via techcrunch]