I love watching people discover AIR for the first time and give some thought to what it really means. We’ve gotten a lot of traction with AIR. The Marketplace continues to grow, developers continue to be excited about it, and both end users and developers alike are tweeting about how cool AIR is. There are a few bugs that we still need to work out of course, and we need to have more of a dialogue with users about how to performance tune their applications so they don’t balloon with memory as they’re used. But aside from that, the platform is in a really good place. That’s why it’s fun to think about the future.

Having one runtime that enables you to not worry about the operating system you’re on is a really powerful thing. Want to switch to Linux but don’t want to give up your apps? If they’re built on AIR you won’t have to. Think about the mobile implications. The success and popularity of the App Store for the iPhone has been huge. Imagine that but across every major phone and device operating system out there. With AIR we have gone a long way towards bridging the gap between the web and the desktop. We’ve given web developers a way to quickly and easily create desktop applications. That’s resulted in a lot of creativity and some very neat applications. And it’s coming at a time when a web-desktop bridge is exactly what the web needs to move forward. So as a developer, if you’re building an AIR app, you’re on the cutting edge of something very big.