But with bugs and differences in implementation specific not only to vendors, but to models and even to firmware releases.
Uniformity and standardization aren't even close to what they are for the SDK or the J2EE stack implementations.
The situation is so bad that a consortium of vendors (including sun) came up with the unified testing initiative to try to address it.
On mobile platforms, you can forget about "Write once run everywhere".
The Airbus A380 today entered commercial service with an inaugural seven hour flight from Singapore to Sydney, in the process wowing passengers who'd snapped up seats in Singapore Airlines' charity eBay ticket auction.
An Oz barmaid who splendidly "entertained customers" in a Western Australia hotel by "crushing beer cans between her bare breasts" has been fined A$1,000 dollars (£439) for a breach of the Liquor Control Act.
Intel has agreed to stump up $250 to Transmeta to settle the patent dispute case between the firms without battling through the courts. Intel will pay its rival $150 in a lump sum, plus an annual license fee of $20m for the next five years.
Exclusive The Official UK Charts Company (OCC), the organisation that maintains the UK's music sales tables, will include albums sold on USB Flash disks in its tallies from next Monday, 29 October, Register Hardware has learned.
While Southern California's firefighters battle to contain the wildfires which have provoked the mass evacuation of 500,000 people, killed at least one, and destroyed around 1,300 homes and businesses, NASA satellites have being doing their bit to record aerial views of the drama for posterity:
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth." -- Milton
