![]() I expect that Microsoft will actually be the biggest winner of this fall-out as their old whipping boys will come crawling back to Microsoft rather than paying for a version of Android that Google will no longer be supporting and they don't have the expertise or money to develop themselves. This is the default version of Java that is provided from a supported Ubuntu repository. The following are the prevalent implementations: OpenJDK: The OpenJDK project is an open-source implementation of the Java SE Platform. Most likely go back to their own in-house solutions that they used to run. Java is a technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and acquired by Oracle. ![]() If they have to pay for a Java license then they will find another free solution. Along with this exodus will be many of the third and fourth tier companies that bloat Android's sales figures with rock bottom price cheap products, because they only use Android because it is free. Samsung which is already distancing itself from Android, and is the largest producer of Android products, will finally transition to their own internal OS. This license permits certain uses, such as personal use and development use, at no cost - but other uses. The Oracle Technology Network License Agreement for Oracle Java SE is substantially different from prior Oracle JDK 8 licenses. The Oracle JDK 8 license changed in April 2019. I predict that five years from now Android on mobile devices will be only a very small fraction of what it is now. Manual update required for some Java 8 users on macOS. I am going to play analyst right now and peer into my crystal ball and pull some BS out of my !%^% (analyst must be the best job in the world). Holy smoke! So, in the end it won't be Apple or Microsoft that will kill Android (is it is now) but Google itself.
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