Come on stop playing games. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Yes the first Java JVMs were bytecode interpreters and there are possibly still some out there for some platforms however modern JVMs have JIT.

Since performance is what people are complaining about with regard to "Java/Android" the lack of JIT is a defining characteristic and why I highlighted that it's just a bytecode interpreter. If you make performance assumptions for Java based on experience with Android you'll be completely wrong.

Android applications are written in the Java language syntax yes but they don't use the Java platform or run as Java on the phone.

Google also makes a toolkit that lets you write javascript applications as Java. That's not "Java" either, that's a Java framework that lets you write javascript/ecmascript.