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Another take on Adobe's Apollo
Not everyone is thrilled about Adobe's Apollo, the cross platform Flash+javascript+html application environment that's supposed to turn conventional applications on their heads. Broadband Mechanics CEO and open standards guru Marc Canter says Adobe is barking up the wrong digital tree. "Why would someone want to lock themselves into a proprietary, closed platform - like Apollo?"Canter loudly implores developers, "would someone please mention to these poor schmucks who swallow this pitch that if you're hopelessly locked into a proprieary platform - that the owner of the platform (Google, Microsoft, Adobe, MySpace) can do ANYTHING they want - at any time and discard you as fast as - well as fast as Macromedia ripped of Laszlo."
Meanwhile, most of the blog-o-sphere moons over the prospect. A rather informative but pretty dry video explaining Apollo's approach is after the jump...
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Matt said 5:40PM on 3-20-2007
So just because a company took matters into their own hands and made it easy to make desktop applications, they should be vilified because their platform isn't "open"? Sorry Marc, you're not getting off that easily.
So what if Apollo isn't an "open" platform? It's a web browser specifically made for web applications designed for the desktop. Why the hell does it need to be open?
Marc, are you mad that the XBOX360 isn't an open platform? Or how about the Mac OS X system as a whole?
...nothing more than weightless comments from someone trying to get some attention
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Alex said 9:28PM on 3-20-2007
I have to agree with Marc. This is Adobe's push at getting a piece of the "platform" pie.
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FlashAndAjaxAreCraptastic said 12:10AM on 3-21-2007
Instead of creating a new browser engine, logical DOM, and easy-to-use, easy-to-read, self-documenting browser programming language, we are stuck with retarded solutions: Ugly, bug-ridden, craptastic Javascript; hacktastic, ready-to-break AJAX; and the proprietary, gaudy, add-another-layer-of-bugs scourge that is Flash.
Ephemeral, fragile interfaces built on a house of cards are the junky work of shortsighted fools.
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