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• 1. ACE  |  November 2nd, 2006 at 2:32 pm

  Apollo is more then just for downloading flash videos. Its going to be a platform for desktop development. Apollo is going to be a direct competitor for .net and java, the advantage to Apollo is in that it can take any web app written in flash or javascript/ajax and transform it into a desktop app. Adobe/Macromedia is making a big play into this desktop space. In a years time we may see an explosion of desktop apps using Apollo. Hock really didn’t explain it in such grandiose terms; maybe they are trying to keep it low key until it’s released.

• 2. Steve Safran  |  November 2nd, 2006 at 4:55 pm

  Thank you for that amplification, ACE. You explained it much better than I could have anyway.

• 3. thomas  |  November 3rd, 2006 at 6:59 am

  Downloading flash has always been possible, there just hasn’t been much need for it.

• 4. Chris Hock  |  November 3rd, 2006 at 3:37 pm

  Thanks for jumping in ACE. Since this clip was shot at the Streaming Media West show, the discussion was focused around Flash video and we only had a limit amount of time, I chose to only talk about how Apollo will be used in the context of Flash video delivery and playback. You are right - Apollo certainly can be used for much more than that! Ryan Stewart has a blog posting entitled “A tour of Adobe’s Apollo project with Kevin Lynch” on zdnet which provides a great overiew of th product. It’s a good read for those who want to learn more about it.

• 5. lucy  |  January 19th, 2008 at 5:19 am

  Wow, thanks for the excellent information!

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