Apple has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against HTC, one of the primary manufacturers of smartphones that run Google Android. If Apple succeeds in what could be a protracted lawsuit, it could temporarily dampen the Android-equipped devices in the U.S. market at a time when some data shows Android enjoying an increasing rate of adoption among consumers. Apple has other lawsuits in play against Nokia, and is being sued by Kodak, over other patent-related issues.
– Apples patent-infringement lawsuit against HTC comes at a time when
Google Android, the smartphone operating system that will be incorporated into
many HTC devices through the end of 2010, has been gaining ground in the
ever-hotter smartphone wars.
According to data released by analytics
firm …