Thanks, interesting commentary, and your point on Google / Oracle all makes sense. One question regarding the architecture would be whether there is more of a

Thanks, interesting commentary, and your point on Google / Oracle all makes sense. One question regarding the architecture would be whether there is more of a performance improvement on x86 versus ARM for the ART pipeline compared to the pipeline for Dalvik. ARM are saying Intel performance suffers mostly because of native code - http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014/05/02/arm_test_results_attack_intel/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014/05/02/arm_test_resul... while not speaking to performance of Dalvik versus ART on the two platforms. Intel are pushing their performance and scale while skipping over the native code question: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/130552-intel-dismisses-x86-tax-sees-no-future-for-arm-or-any-of-its-competitors http://www.extremetech.com/computing/130552-intel-dismisses-... . It sounds from what you say that ART doesn't really change the balance between Intel and ARM in any significant way, so that leaves the question of whether the problems Intel has with translating apps with native code compiled to ARM targets can be overcome by any manufacturing advantages Intel may enjoy.