Platform Independence Quotes

I think you will see a point where the traditional model of advertising on TV or advertising online will go, and advertisers will cover one programme, no matter what platform it's being broadcast on. You'll see the same ads whether you are watching it on your TV, your computer or your phone.

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.

My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.

In the near future, we'll have games that don't depend on any platform.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

I don't want to tie myself into one area or the other. I think its important not to rely heavily on either TV or stand-up, but to let them work off of each other.

The Web's core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.

I'm platform agnostic. I've been platform agnostic ever since I went online.

As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google.

It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform.