Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations

Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by pclark on Thursday January 29, 2009 @06:45AM (#456208)

I still hate Air. Here's why:

Of all the companies, do we really want Adobe to be the gate keeper of yet another format? Isn't PDF and Flash enough?

Air encourages bad User Interfaces. One UI across multiple platforms leads to horrible, non-standard interfaces on all platforms.

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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by satyajit on Thursday January 29, 2009 @06:53AM (#456216)

Yet another format? They are just churning out yet another app on the same flash format, that's been installed on almost over 98% of desktops all over the world! So what's wrong? And if you have used some specific apps like eBay Desktop on Air, it rocks, esp if you are a power eBay user. Air is a good thing, I just hope that they learn from their PDF/Acrobat mistakes and do not let Air/Flash go down that path!

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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by pclark on Thursday January 29, 2009 @06:55AM (#456218)

erm, Air apps require Adobe Air -- not Adobe Flash.

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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by dantheman on Thursday January 29, 2009 @07:33AM (#456250)

erm, Air apps are basically flash apps with a slightly more powerful api and framework to run them offline.

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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by satyajit on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:22PM (#457249)

Yea, I think Air definitely brings a value addition on an already existing web platform. To use the APIs, and create an app that can work with your site in an online/offline mode, and still present a compelling interface, there isn't a whole lot of choice I see...

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