While its's tempting to pick minor nits in this post, the only appropriate answer is this: So what?

For server-side web applications, VMs (and the JVM in particular) already won. Sorry. They've made industrial strength GC, JIT and multi-threading features for the mass market.

As for phones, I really doubt whether Android's use of a VM will have anything to do with its success. There are many factors which will be much more important, like fragmentation.