http://www.websector.de/blog/2007/03/23/5-reasons-for-building-apollo-applications-as-a-flash-developer/ // Flex - AIR - Flash - JavaScript Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.websector.de/blog/2007/03/23/5-reasons-for-building-apollo-applications-as-a-flash-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Dirk Platzek Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:18:12 +0000 http://www.websector.de/blog/2007/03/23/5-reasons-for-building-apollo-applications-as-a-flash-developer/#comment-67 I agree that the technical possiblities are great. First I thought that it might be weird to liberate web content from the browser, since this is the place where we would mentally expect it to be. Then I realized that Apollo expands on the already existing technologies such as dashboards, widgets, gadgets or even iTunes. It's not strange at all to view "web content" in iTunes. Hopefully the community comes up with more interesting ideas then the <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html" rel="nofollow">Ebay branded app</a>on the Adobe website. Apollo puts a lot of power into the hands of the Flash community. I agree that the technical possiblities are great. First I thought that it might be weird to liberate web content from the browser, since this is the place where we would mentally expect it to be. Then I realized that Apollo expands on the already existing technologies such as dashboards, widgets, gadgets or even iTunes. It’s not strange at all to view “web content” in iTunes. Hopefully the community comes up with more interesting ideas then the Ebay branded appon the Adobe website.
Apollo puts a lot of power into the hands of the Flash community.

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