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iPhone runs iPhone OS, not FreeBSD. And Android is a Linux-based operating system, not a Java application.

The iPhone OS is based on Mac OS X which is (Unix, but also) BSD-like.

The rest of what you say and it's meaning is correct and unchanged though, of course :)

Wouldn't emulating the Android bytecode inside iPhone OS be the opposite of native?

This looks like it boots straight into the actual android linux, so it's about as native as you can get.

Jeez, does an honest question like this really deserve -4 votes?

-3 +3 now you are even ;)

Yup, Mach was intended to replace the BSD kernel, it + some of 4.3BSD kernel = XNU, which underlies OS X and iPhone OS.

similarly I thought, maybe they can chop off SpringBoard from a freshly jailbroken iPhone OS and replace it with the VM and its GUI. That'd be a significant saving in coding process.

Having actually ported Linux to a new platform...I'd honestly say I can't see live starting from an app actually being easier than booting from a bootloader.

Now: Making it so the bootloader can be installed as an app via an open source project and compiling for the developer program, now that's a worthy goal and intermediary step.