@stebidri Trouble is the OEMs are screwing it up for Google. Doing to Android what they do to Windows, installing lots of software of dubious quality and usefulness at the factory, often the user cannot remove it. Now the networks are doing the same (I see Vodafone in the UK) and this has the potential to really hurt Android.
This is a fairly recent phenomenon for Windows, I wonder if Windows would have achieved dominance in the market if the OEMs had behaved like this from the beginning.
As for Oracle, well I think it's a little more than wanting "a piece of the pie"; Google have created an incompatible version of Java (programs compiled for Android only run in the Dalvik VM, they are incompatible with the JRE). This has to represent a threat to "real" Java and I see Oracle have no real option but to defend Java in court. I'm not sure Oracle just want "the money", it maybe more complex than that. They may want Google in use the official JRE (Java Embedded) and pay the fees, more than "just cash". This would stop a fracturing of Java and ensure an ongoing revenue stream.
I imagine Apple are laughing themselves silly.
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