I don't think shutting down RoboVM to avoid competition is Xamarin's goal, after all if RoboVM were to shut down there is no reason to assume that the Java deve

I don't think shutting down RoboVM to avoid competition is Xamarin's goal, after all if RoboVM were to shut down there is no reason to assume that the Java developers that use it would migrate wholesale over to the Xamarin C# development environment. My theory is that Xamarin is starting to care less and less what language is used to build mobile apps (for a while they claimed to care more about C# than Microsoft did); and instead own the products that become a natural pipeline into their service offerings like Test Cloud. Buying RoboVM lets Xamarin build in hooks that will mean staying in Xamarin platform is a natural progression.