The usefulness of the patent system is obvious to anyone who has taken the time to file a patent and then had a company lease that patent. It should not be argued that a patent system is not a USEFUL construct. However, there are several issues within the patent system that needs must be addressed. Issue 1: Any patent that is broad in nature, IE: Does not give a detailed description of the exact method and means by which a task or methodology is being done, cannot be allowed to pass through the system. This cannot be allowed because as we all know there are a million ways to solve almost any problem, and as such any one company should only be able to patent their specific methods. This allows others to derive their own methods for accomplishing the same goal, without infringing on others. Issue 2: When a patent is filed, there should be a standard formula applied to all patents such that when a patent is granted, the cost of leasing that patent is public knowledge. Issue 3: The right to lease a patent and the terms and conditions by which that patent can be leased should be defined at the time the patent is applied for, thus when the patent is granted all interested parties have full disclosure of how they may use a given patent. In this way all patents should be available to the public for ANY COMPANY to use, as long as they abide by the terms and conditions, and pay the standard rate. Issue 4: A standard formula needs to exist by which patent terms are granted, there should be no appeal to this term, it should begin on the day the patent is applied for, and end on the date specified by the formula. Once that patent has expired, the technique becomes public domain and free for all to use. Issue 5: Once a patent has entered public domain, the public domain status cannot be revoked for any reason. If these issues are addressed and implemented, I believe that the patent system would finally actually work for companies rather than work against companies.

So the fact that phones made by god knows how many manufacturers, distributed by who knows how many carriers, that just happen to run the same operating system have an aggregate failure rate higher than the other two smart phone vendors who produce their own hardware and software, and have a MUCH smaller part of the overall market. This is like saying that windows computers have a higher rate of failure than than computers from HP that run Ubuntu. In other words, apples and oranges. If you want a functional comparison, compare aggrigate failure rates of android phones produced by one of the major manufacturers, (HTC, Moto, Samsung) to the failure rates of Iphones and BB's. Otherwise return the credits you claimed to have earned for taking any stats classes EVER.

It seem to me, and mind you I have not studied this problem, that there will be a significant bias in any statistics gathered based on the content of the site those statistics are gathered from. For example: If your looking at /. I would expect a much higher percentage of FF or Chrome VS IE. Most of us are tech savy and refuse to use IE (Anti-microsoft BIAS) While if you look at Facebook, you will likely see a higher percentage of IE because that ecosystem is so much more diverse with fewer tech savy users. If you go to a site with content related to Apple products you will likely see a higher percentage of Safari or iOS. Android web sites, higher Android Percentage. Because of this kind of BIAS, which will be present almost anywhere in one form or another I would say its VERY difficult to rely on any of these statistics. As for myself I'm a Mozilla user for now. Though I have a copy of Chrome that I use on my desktop. One of the main reasons I am considering switching to Chrome is because Mozilla hasn't kept up with their releases on Linux and I'm tired of manually updating every time a new version comes out.

Why don't we just make wireless devices illegal for minors that way they can't possible use those convienent access points to look at OMG porn.