In no way can Android be compared to JME.
JME was designed to be embedded
directly onto chips, a Java Chip so to speak.
Android is 1st an embedded
linux OS consisting of many linux drivers, linux programs and linux libraries.
Furthermore the set of native linux features is expandable as Mfg's introduce
new hardware. The Android VM runtime is layered on top of the linux platform.
This model is a lot closer to a desktop model and has almost nothing in common
with the JME model.
Some say that Android is deployed onto handsets and is
not a real computer and therefore is more like embedded JME. This is
false.
While employed at DEC in 90's, I was given a laptop (333Mhz CPU,
128MB RAM, 10 Mb disk). Is this a real computer? My Galaxy Nexus has more raw
power, storage and memory and loger battery life than that earlier laptop.
I
can recall selling an ALPHA computer system to clients for a 1,000,000 dollars
that had less raw power, storage and memory than my laptop does today which I
paid a $1,000 for.
Form factor is irrelevant, modern smartphones/tablets
are to be compared with desktop devices; and not feature phones which JME is
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