I don't mean "if you take away Android today would Java succeed on mobile?", I mean "if you retrospectively imagine Android never existed at all (or used a diff

I don't mean "if you take away Android today would Java succeed on mobile?", I mean "if you retrospectively imagine Android never existed at all (or used a different language), how does Java do?" My position is that it doesn't really change things all that much, with losses by Android probably mostly picked up by Apple or Symbian or webOS or Windows Phone but the trajectory to smartphones and away from J2ME stuff largely the same. The sense of how much Android actually "mattered" in this sense goes right to the "effect on the market" prong. As for the broader case, both the copyrightability and fair use claims have been presented to the Supreme Court here. The temptation from the outside looking in is to think/hope/dread that the court will just resolve these questions once and for all, but they often prefer to resolve cases on narrower grounds, where available. Google spent a lot of time arguing for, and would be perfectly fine with, a simple remand based on the Federal Circuit's standard of review of the jury's fair use verdict.