Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/29/adobe-air-is-flying-100-million-installations-accounted-for/

by ThomPete • 17 years ago

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pclark4• 17 years ago

I still hate Air. Here's why:

Of all the companies, do we really want Adobe to be the gate keeper of yet another format? Isn't PDF and Flash enough?

Air encourages bad User Interfaces. One UI across multiple platforms leads to horrible, non-standard interfaces on all platforms.

satyajit2• 17 years ago

Yet another format? They are just churning out yet another app on the same flash format, that's been installed on almost over 98% of desktops all over the world! So what's wrong? And if you have used some specific apps like eBay Desktop on Air, it rocks, esp if you are a power eBay user. Air is a good thing, I just hope that they learn from their PDF/Acrobat mistakes and do not let Air/Flash go down that path!

pclark4• 17 years ago

erm, Air apps require Adobe Air -- not Adobe Flash.

ThomPete6• 17 years ago

pclark, well you will have a hard time finding a framework that is more fitted for online/offline services, that actually allows you to create a proper UX and design experience and that is so easy to get going with. No other crossbrowser frameworks work as well as this IMHO

pclark4• 17 years ago

for a bloody good reason -- it shouldn't be done.

The solution? Web Apps + Google Gears. Then it'll run on any OS, even iPhones -- and can be offline. You have the added ability of creating a "nice" UI that users will expect - if my mother was to open an Adobe Air, she'd be confused as hell. Its neither a web app, nor a native app.

Don't make web apps look like desktop apps

Always make desktop apps look like their native OS. If you can't do this, just make a freaking web app.

dantheman2• 17 years ago

I'm going to have to disagree, an AIR application is no less a native application than a java program. There is no need for a network connection for it to run.

codeview• 17 years ago

Google gears , Mozilla Prism are all a different genre. If you are planning to build an "occasionally connected app" that lives within the browser, Gears is a good choice. AIR is for building desktop apps.

If you are a web developer and knows Javascript (and/or Flash), you can build great apps that works nicely on desktop with Adobe AIR. AIR doesn't force developers to build custom chrome for apps. By default AIR renders the app in OS's native chrome. But if a developer chooses to, he can go for custom chrome .Thats it.

AIR is a runtime (more like Java ) for running AIR apps. You needn't "open an Adobe Air" at any point. Just install the apps you really want and use it.

ThomPete6• 17 years ago

It's not a web app it's a desktop app.

You are creating a pseudo problem. You mother wouldn't even know it was an air app most probably.

I don't know what makes you think that those two paradigmes shouldn't merge. Nothing at all dictates that that shouldn't happen.

matthias• 17 years ago

Firefox is at 800 million, but I'd say at least 40 of those were me!

statictype• 17 years ago

I've never really used any app that runs on Air. What are the killer apps for this platform? There must be something big if they've got 100 million installations.

Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations

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