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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...
