I wasn't listing 'features'. I was listing reasons the published growth rates might not necessarily be indicative of future performance.

In other words, Apple could end the exclusivity deal and immediately sell a bunch of iPhones to non AT&T users.

Let's take that Android growth rate.

Now factor in that it's almost exclusively among people who have contracts with carriers that don't offer iPhones.
Now factor in that it's for the US only.
Now factor in that it's doesn't mention that Apple sells other devices (iPods, iPads) that are part of the same 'ecosystem' as the iPhone.

I think you're declaring this competition over a little prematurely.

There is nothing about a codec that makes it amenable to DRM. This is uninformed fear-mongering.

DRM is incorporated at the wrapper level. For example, the 'Fairplay' DRM used by Apple is proprietary to Apple and has nothing whatsoever to do with H264.

Remind me never to hire you as my attorney.

You're wrong. Renderman has options for ray tracing, it's still using it's rasterization for most stuff. Doing everything with raytracing would be incredibly inefficient, and wouldn't look any better.