It was never their purpose. In fact, they never developed it at all - they just bought it. Google does not care about opening up their code. They only do so when it's necessary. They have never opened up their search engine, advertising platform or anything else when the license allows it.
In fact, despite the fact that kernel and userland programs in Android require it to be open source, Google is making it as hard as possible for it to be any use for others. You need to be registered partner and pay hefty sums just to officially use Android. In fact, they have basically used the work of countless amount of volunteer programmers without giving much back. They do this to use their position as the largest ad broker on planet and to leverage it against competitors who actually spend time, money and workforce to create their own software. Google largely piggybacks on everyone else's work, from search results to Android to YouTube. It's no surprise they do this with Java too. Which, in my opinion is crappy choice anyway, but one they had to make because they didn't want to create something original..net and C# are much better than Java. Guess why Google doesn't use it or create their own? Because that would be much more work to do.
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It was never their purpose. In fact, they never developed it at all - they just bought it. Google does not care about opening up their code. They only do so when it's necessary. They have never opened up their search engine, advertising platform or anything else when the license allows it.
.net and C# are much better than Java. Guess why Google doesn't use it or create their own? Because that would be much more work to do.
In fact, despite the fact that kernel and userland programs in Android require it to be open source, Google is making it as hard as possible for it to be any use for others. You need to be registered partner and pay hefty sums just to officially use Android. In fact, they have basically used the work of countless amount of volunteer programmers without giving much back. They do this to use their position as the largest ad broker on planet and to leverage it against competitors who actually spend time, money and workforce to create their own software. Google largely piggybacks on everyone else's work, from search results to Android to YouTube. It's no surprise they do this with Java too. Which, in my opinion is crappy choice anyway, but one they had to make because they didn't want to create something original.