There is always a dream that you could write [a program] once and [have it] run anywhere and history has proven that that dream has not been fully realised and I am sceptical that it ever will be

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Andy Rubin, VP of engineering at Google, on the recently announced Wholesale Applications Community, a “platform” being backed by pretty much every mobile carrier on the planet. The idea sounds like something akin to Apple’s iPhone app store, only it’s supposed to work across mobile operating systems, devices and carriers. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of computing has to see how dumb this idea is.

Also, it’s called WAC. Seriously.