A lot has already been said about the proxy battle against Google via HTC, brought on by Apple. And there’s several prologues to this building feud, most recently the NYT. And I just read another recent article [betanews.com] to offer a different view, which sparked my idea of how to make it really ugly for Apple. My idea -
HTC should release an official update to SenseUI that complies to all of Apple’s allegations on one hand, and with the other hand release all of the source code of the current ROM with SenseUI into the developer community. All the feature would be returned to normal by the open dev community within the week, and maybe the Hero users would finally get some of the Android 2.1 updates before the end of the year. Let Apple try to pin this lawsuit on the open source community.
I believe SenseUI is developed by another group within HTC, so they would have to give it away and forsake any revenues tied to this asset. But with enough money, just about anything can happen, right Google?
