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Is Adobe Overhyping AIR's Success?

Thu, Jan 29th, 2009

Adobe AIR, an excellent cross-platform run time for web-connected desktop applications, has been downloaded 100 million times in under one year of availability, according to a post on the AIR team blog today. We like AIR, a lot, but the hype smells funny to us.

Venture Beat says Adobe is winning the platform race and TechCrunch says that AIR is Flying. There are reasons to believe, however, that AIR is not being used widely and news coverage of the announcement so far has failed to look at those details.

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