If there's a gold rush, sell shovels. I can see no other viable reason for Google to buy HTC. They surely don't want to manufacture phones. I can't think of any

If there's a gold rush, sell shovels. I can see no other viable reason for Google to buy HTC. They surely don't want to manufacture phones. I can't think of any major patents HTC holds on the mobile arena, can you? There was a recent article about their phone division having financial trouble.