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Adobe Releases Cross-Operating System Runtime
An anonymous reader writes to mention that Adobe released the first public version of their new cross-operating system runtime today nicknamed 'Apollo'. "The software relies on HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and Adobe Flex. The alpha version, which presently works on Windows and Macintosh, can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.com/go/apollo. Once the Apollo apps are created, users can launch them from their desktops, without using their browser or connecting online. An Apollo application can connect automatically to online data or services when an Internet connection is detected, with new components automatically downloaded and integrated. The user needs the Apollo runtime to run the apps, just as a Flash player is needed to run Flash animations."
Could be worse.
Could be Java.
Surely an architecture like this can't function without duct tape.
...and 64-bit support will be available shortly after Duke Nukem Forever is released.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
Could be even worse.
.NET.
Could be
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
they want java back.
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Oh, wait, it's not.
Nevermind.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Because those products are ancient. They've been on the market for literally years, about a decade (!!!) each. How can you possibly make money selling a software brand that old? Adobe and Flash are the Chia Pet and Hula Hoop of the industry. Blah.
You would clearly make a terrible manager.
Could be Java.
There is no Appolo, just XUL....;-)actually, it sounds suspiciously like xul (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/) with some flash thrown in. mind you, i've not read the article or played with any of the apps so i'm just guessing wildly.
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GIMP is great until you need to, say, draw a straight line. Then you get bounced around their website to a highly sarcastic tutorial that makes it sound like ANY moron should know their weird shift-clicking technique with no explanation. And then OSS people say it's unfair that they have a rep for not being "user-friendly." /rant
They want Smalltalk back.
And they're welcome to it. B-)
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Link? :P
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It's kind of pointless if there's no Linux build. I wonder if it'll work in Wine.
At least they're not using Microsoft's definition of cross-platform: It runs on Vista _and_ XP.
Just give up. Otherwise, this will eventually end with them complaining that it doesn't run on the VIC-20.