[oldxoog]

You don't win just by having google's pocketbook. I know some projects who wished that was true and I'm sure you do too.

You can complain about dalvik or webviews or the shitty ide or whatever, fact is there isn't a SINGLE company in the valley or Seoul or anywhere in the tech world who doesn't want to be in control of Android. How are those FB and MSFT and AMZN efforts going?

That tells you all you need to know about why Android has been and will be a "success" to google.