[gord]

Note to Google - fix smartphones and insure against future patent abuse by advancing an even better alternative - a fully formed HTML5+Javascript mobile OS offering.

Mobile and Web are the same thing, its just we have a legacy crud that needs to be factored away.

Ideally my phone runs linux with a GPU accelerated HTML5 UI, and has a javascript programming model with open API to get to hardware features. We are nearly there.

I believe Objective-C and Java languages are ultimately unsuited to phone app development. [ because phone app development _is_ web app development ]

This would be a bold, unifying, visionary strategy. You already have this in place, it just needs to be amplified - doing so could be the perfect strategy to win the patent game by making the patent game largely irrelevant.

[fpgeek]

Huh? HTML5 + Javascript would not avoid future patent abuse. There are lots of dubious web-related patents from the dot-com bubble that haven't expired yet.