There is a different way to look at this. Right now, Flash is still just and "on-line" technology in the view of most people. Even though AIR does a lot of things, people still don't think it is very important. Similar problem that Microsoft had with VB being considered only a desktop tech and almost none taking it seriously as a server until Microsoft built server based applications.
For me, Mass appeal of AIR is huge! It would mean that I can push Flex as a Desktop as well as a Web application. It becomes the replacement for VB and .net which then lets me solidify the build once/deploy everywhere that we have been talking about since the early Java days. I understand your concern that Adobe is doing similar things as you are however, Micorsoft, IBM, Oracle and most others also make a lot of applications that are similar to what their developers build also. The difference is customization as well as usage. I think if Adobe can produce good desktop and Web applications that we can showcase, we will be able to move the market away from Microsoft and Sun and increase the viability of using Flex in corporations. For me, at my company we were choosing between Silverlight, JavaFX, Doja and Flex. It was the fact that Microsoft had released Photoshop Express that helped to sell Flex. That is my .02. Robert Thompson wrote: > > I agree. Let's see what happens. > > > Everyone here is an individual that can judge for themselves. > > I myself and quite concerned. > > I hope to be more informed than the Press Releases, White-paper and > list of Clients already served by Adobe with a solution akin to the > "Hybrid" or "Flex Store" and based on a high-performance platform. > > Great. But where does that FLEX mass-appeal product leave the developers. > > If Scene7.com did it themselves great. But Adobe has purchased them, > the CEO of Adobe resigned about the same time, and now we have a new > Adobe who is building a hybrid lightweight operating system in AIR > that I have been very excited about in the past in my posts here, and > in an OpenGL display framework (Papervision3D to the rescue), but now > Adobe has just added a new dimension to all of this....competition in > a very real sense against a developer, for example, bidding for a > Small Running Shoe company. Do they choose Adobe Scene7 or do they > choose a developer? Probably Adobe. > > A ran 8:52 for the 3200m in college, All SEC twice, and NCAA > Division-1, 3rd place championship team, and had a good running > career, which is why I brought up the example of a running shoe store. > > -r > > ** > * *
