Right, google does not pay the bill, but that's not the point of android. It's meant as a platform for developers which then don't have to worry about CPU-speci

Right, google does not pay the bill, but that's not the point of android. It's meant as a platform for developers which then don't have to worry about CPU-specifics. And as important, it is meant as a platform for mobile device vendors. Though, google had to make sure that dalvik has a reasonable performance compared to native apps. Even if android Java apps are 2-10x slower than corresponding native applications, that's ok, because further savings will come with the next level of power-saving CPUs for mobile devices which will be able to run current android apps unchanged.