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Adobe Apollo blasts off, where will it take us?


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]

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