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Re:The Internet Economy by frik on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:46PM (#11670526)
A company worked on Android for several years, then Google bought it.

Google has ChromeOS, with a HTML based shell. And there were some news articles that Google is merging ChromeOS and Android - we will see if those speculations were true.

Re:The Internet Economy by bobajeff on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:51PM (#11672538)
In addition to this. J2ME and Symbian (the two biggest mobile platforms when Android was being developed) were both based off Java so it made sense to use it.