Specifically what does Google want with HTC’s smartphone business?

Google has announced it’s buying a $1.1bn slice of HTC’s smartphone business, with it giving the once leading Taiwanese phone brand an extremely needed lifeline. But simply what does Google want with an important part of a smartphone business?

Google isn’t purchasing the whole of HTC, simply a relatively large part in the Taipei-based company’s smartphone business and not just its Vive virtual reality headset business. Google gains 50 % of HTC’s research and team