Comments on: What Is Apollo For?

By: vegas betting line

vegas betting line — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:01:34 +0000

Thank you for opening a wonderfully new sight..I wish you the best of luck with your new venture.

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:40:25 +0000

Wasn’t this the idea behind Macromedia Central. Are there any similarities or stark contrasts?

By: Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:24:02 +0000

Iâ€™ve been hearing a lot about this C++ stuff. I hope I donâ€™t wind up with dozens of C++ apps on my desktop.

-ZING- . You’re right though. Then again, I have been visiting download.com less and less as web applications handle most of what I need. But there are going to be so many Apollo cool Apollo apps that I’m going need a manager.

By: Craig babcock

Craig babcock — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:09:08 +0000

Haha, was thinking the same thing.

I suppose it could become a bit unwieldy after a while – imagine if 10% of your web favorites had corresponding shortcuts for your desktop/taskbar/system tray/start menu… Yikes!

Hmmm, assuming Apollo doesn’t have a ‘bookmarking’ feature, that might be a clever app to build – an Apollo app to manage your Apollo apps.

By: Keith Peters

Keith Peters — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:27:55 +0000

I’ve been hearing a lot about this C++ stuff. I hope I don’t wind up with dozens of C++ apps on my desktop.

By: Sean Corfield

Sean Corfield — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:59:34 +0000

If I could get an offline version of Gmail built with Apollo, I’d certainly use that. If I could get an offline version of Google Docs & Spreadsheets with Apollo, I’d use that too (I use OpenOffice.org right now because I need offline editing but if I knew I could be 100% online I’d use Google Docs instead).

But I think there’s a big market out there for desktop applications and now we just have another technology for building them and – most importantly – it’s cross-platform. You build an Apollo app and it’ll available to everyone. That’s the killer feature.

By: sascha/hdrs

sascha/hdrs — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:33:05 +0000

You know …. there’s always the “You can” but not the “You have to”!
I wouldn’t worry to much if people start writing all kinds of useless applications as long as you can write cool ones with it too.