Adobe Apollo blasts off, where will it take us?

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Adobe Apollo blasts off, where will it take us?

by Grant Robertson Mar 19th 2007

Adobe's just-launched Apollo platform could be the ticket to a whole new world of applications according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. He writes of the announcement, "I honestly believe that entirely new classes of companies can be built on this platform, which takes Flash, HTML and javascript completely outside of the browser and interacts with the file system on a PC."

You can pick up your free (as in beer) copy of the Apollo Alpha SDK and follow Arrington's admonishment to "go build something". Adobe's stated target is "allowing web developers to build and deploy web applications to the desktop", which could help define a whole new class of network aware applications. While Apollo promises to be a cross-platform environment, although support for Linux isn't expected until sometime after the full 1.0 release; a real shame given its incredible potential.

We're interested in anything Apollo related, so if you spot the first examples of Apollo applications in the wild, hit our tip box and let us know the skinny, dig?

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: Adobe, Apollo, next generation applications, NextGenerationApplications, web applications, web development, WebApplications, WebDevelopment

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Zatch said 8:50PM on 3-19-2007

I wonder...

Victor Agreda, Jr. said 8:52AM on 3-20-2007

webmonkey Marc Canter doesn't appear to enthused:
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/03/yet-another-closed-platform

iam_the_maharishi said 10:41AM on 3-21-2007

We already have so many runtimes to work on!!!! Why do we need one more????

cesrage said 2:12PM on 3-24-2007

This could be it, finally a chance to make a difference , quick everyone jump on this like flys on shit, we can do it!

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