I've read speculation that the success of Android over Java J2ME was due to licensing: J2ME, being GPL licensed (unless you pay royalties to Sun), would "infect" any apps built on it forcing all apps to also be open source, making it difficult to sell apps in an app store, or for a vendor to create customized software for a value-added improved user experience.
If true, we've gotten Apache licensed Android and, as expected, a giant stinking morass of closed source, crappy, unmodifiable apps.
It was supposedly the market which decided this: you get the software you deserve, not the software you want.
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