I think that retooling with Python would be such a huge undertaking that they could not do it. Not so much for their own software, but lets face there are ~10

I think that retooling with Python would be such a huge undertaking that they could not do it. Not so much for their own software, but lets face there are ~100,000 Java apps out there for android now. It would be interesting if they could do either of: - Switch to use the GPL version of Java and be fully conformant with the java specs. This presumably would hurt performance unless they could do some miracle engineering to obviate the reasons Dalvik exists. Perhaps though, as phones get more powerful it's not so important. - Keep Dalvik but work around whatever ip violations Oracle is successful in claiming. They probably believe they have already done this.