Many of the quotes in the article suggest that the Sun people really thought that there current system was a credible solution for the mobile space. Anyone who has ever used Java on mobile is going to have a hard time swallowing that one.
If their argument boils down to "well, they should have agreed to make their system just as shitty as the rest of our systems so that they could be crappily compatible" then it's not hard to see why Google went a different direction.
If their argument boils down to "well, they should have agreed to make their system just as shitty as the rest of our systems so that they could be crappily compatible" then it's not hard to see why Google went a different direction.