Speculation abounds that Apple’s patent-infringement lawsuit is really a proxy for a war against Google as the two Valley behemoths find themselves in increasing competition. The patent-infringement lawsuit Apple filed against HTC on Monday caught the entire industry off guard, and has left plenty in the tech press and blogosphere accusing the firm of using HTC as a proxy to attack Google, widely seen as Apple’s real enemy.
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