Yeah, the author basically started with the argument that Google should have Sun then so that Android would have been protected. Then he realized, the price was

Yeah, the author basically started with the argument that Google should have Sun then so that Android would have been protected. Then he realized, the price was too much for what is just a license, and then started piling on unconvincing arguments, one after the another. Google already has a platform. They call it the web. And Google tends to use whatever language seems convenient to them then.