Apollo Starting to Gain Traction

Posted At : May 25, 2007 12:55 PM | Posted By : Rey Bango
Related Categories: Adobe,Apollo

TechCrunch reported today about the Digg API Visualization Contestwhich was held to celebrate the release of the Digg API.

As TechCrunch stated (and I couldn't have worded it any better: "Four of the ten finalists are Adobe Apollo based applications, remarkable for a platform launched just over 2 months ago."

To be fair to TechCrunch, I don't want to cut and paste everything in the article but I will say that it certainly shows the viability of Apollo for providing desktop applications using tried and true web technologies. I don't see Apollo supplanting traditional desktop platforms such Microsoft's .Net coupled with Visual Studio/C#/VB etc but it is good to see an alternative to bring web apps to the desktop.

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Arguably, TechCrunch should have said, "remarkable for a platform that hasn't even launched yet". After all, it's a feature-incomplete alpha. Oh well, it's cool that more mainstream technology sites have an interest in Apollo, even if the details aren't always right.

I was a little disappointed in the uses of Apollo for the Digg contest. Nothing very innovative with the technology itself. The Apollo apps could have easily been made into regular browser-based SWFs. In fact, they might have ranked higher because many Digg users didn't want to install Apollo.

# Posted By Josh | 5/25/07 5:45 PM

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