Hes mad at the right person. EAs authentication scheme locked him out. Its EAs fault if someone else could "keygen" his serial. As a paying customer, he shouldn't be affected by the pirates. As usual, only paying customers are affected by DRM and copy protection. The pirates just crack the thing and forget about it.

Define "Infected Firefox installations"

Maybe you mean "PC with Firefox installed thats infected by a {virus|trojan|keylogger|spyware}" ?

Still, installing Firefox doesn't prevent you from catching something for running infected software or prevents someone from installing some crap that puts toolbars or BonziBuddy into your PC....

I think this is one of the first Android phones from a big brand name manufacturer, the rest comes from HTC for what Ive seen.

They already did

http://www.pcworld.com/article/166723/hands_on_with_samsungs_android_handset.html

Not sure when it will be available, but I think it was Real Soon Now.

They don't have to use any standard protocol or client. They can probably ad an icon somewhere that says "Install IE" and get whatever is needed from the network with no further user interaction. I dont think they are expecting naive users to open a client, connect somewhere and getting a file using a FTP client or something to that effect.

Also, input validation can be done progressively! The Japanese write it that way...I think its also ISO compliant (ISO 8601)

Only if you get off on credits