It's true that is one way of measuring company size, it's not the only way though. Market cap is also a measurement of appreciation. Meaning how much people are willing to pay for a share.

Is Apple bigger than GM? Is Google bigger than Indian railway?

Also if mr. Jobs kicked the bucket tomorrow, what would happen to Apple's share? Let's say the share would loose 1/3 of it's value, would it make Apple automatically 1/3 smaller? I don't think so. Maybe in Nasdaq but not in the real world.

Java is not performance oriented language, there's _always_ extra VM layer which makes it slower and take more cpu cycles compared to native application. CPU cycles are especially important in mobile world. But it's true that most of the applications don't need the last percents of performance. But for those apps there's always Python... Which can use QT also. So you can probably tell I'm not a huge java fan

This thread should be split, the original question has been answered many times and this current debate is about something completely different.

And Orangebox, it would really help others if you learned to use the "quote & reply" link as manual inline quoting is rather annoying to read. Let's keep the UI consistent shall we, please.