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Are You Over AIR Applications?

Source: readwriteweb

Jul 13, 2009

Summary

When Adobe AIR was first released, we were in love. These glorious rich internet applications let us interact with web services outside our browser. In many ways, AIR apps were revolutionary. More complex than simple desktop widgets, these programs delivered the web to us in beautiful little packages. Almost immediately, we were updating Twitter, streaming video, reading feeds, editing photos, and so much more using various apps built for this new platform.

But recently, we've begun to question AIR's longevity. Now don't get us wrong - many of our favorite apps (TweetDeck, Tumbleweed, Yammer, etc.) are built using Adobe AIR. However, there's no reason why these apps couldn't just run in a browser instead...and that might even be a better place for them.

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Comments (2)

Wpbasti,

Jul 14, 2009

I must say that I never really understood the benefit of AIR. The file system API and native drag&drop etc. is useful, but this might also work for normal browsers when we have some kind of authorization through the user available.

Greghollingsworth,

Jul 14, 2009

As a Tweetdeck user, I guess I'm not over AIR just yet, but I will say that there seem to be very few other AIR apps that I've found a continued use for.

Chrome is speedier than FF, but it's hard to give up the extensions for FF. Don't know, maybe it's time to give Chrome a second shot.