Mike Arrington Plugs Apollo
I’ve heard rumblings that Michael Arrington is a big fan of Apollo, but Hans pointed me to an article today by Dan Farber, one of my fellow ZDNet bloggers which summarized some of Mike’s thoughts on the winners and losers in the web world. The final quote of the paragraph is where it gets good:
Mike also talked up Adobe’s Apollo platform, claiming that new classes of companies will be launched on this new platform, which will let applications written for Adobe’s Flash presentation software run without a Web browser. Apollo is due out next year as a free download.
When Michael Arrington speaks, companies listen, and as we get closer to an Apollo launch, I’m sure the talk will get louder. This is a great thing for both Apollo and Flex. In fact, it’s a good thing for anyone involved with Rich Internet Applications.
Update: I just found some audio of Mike talking about Apollo. It’s the fourth clip on this page.
[tags]Adobe, Apollo, Mike Arrington, TechCrunch, Web 2.0[/tags]
Posted in Adobe
September 15th, 2006 at 7:11 am
Indeed, Apollo is very exciting.
I’d love to see something about how free it’ll be to develop apps for it – just a .lib file to drop into the Flex SDK would be great, a hundred doller plus add-on to Flex Builder worst.
September 15th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Is Apollo Free as in Beer:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:developerfaq#Is_Apollo_free_.28as_in_beer.29.3F
What IDE do I use to create Apollo Applications
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:developerfaq#What_IDE_do_I_use_to_develop_Apollo_Applications.3F
We will be providing a set of free command line tools and SDK for developing Apollo applications. So, using those tools in conjunction with mxmlc, and you could build and deploy Apollo applications for no cost.
So yes, you will be able to develop Apollo apps for free.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
September 18th, 2006 at 1:13 am
“you will be able to develop Apollo apps for free”
Hazzah !
Thanks for posting those links.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I’m not surprised that Arrington is talking it up – it’s a great tool!