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[vetinari]

It was never JVM. Converting to dex happens on developer side, and that severs anything JVM-like.

[Ygg2 → vetinari]

Nitpick that doesn't affect my argument. Argument is based on access to underlying hardware not it being JVM.

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Just because it's based on JVM compatible VM, doesn't make ART/Dalvik my Operating system either.

[croes → Ygg2]

Because neither JVM nor Dalvik are OS.

Android is a kind of Linux just like Dalvik is a kind of JVM.

[Ygg2 → croes]

Ok, but what makes OS an operating system? Versus a virtualization mechanism or an app?

[croes → Ygg2]

In the case of JVM threading, file handling, memory management etc. is delegated down to the host real operating system.

[Ygg2 → croes]

Same happens for Linux, power, memory and bunch of other stuff is delegated to the SoC firmware.