Here is what I think is the best overview and explanation of Apollo to date. I myself have struggled to fully understand what Apollo is, what it will be capable of and how it will help me as a developer. This Breezo sums Apollo up very nicely. You should seek about 15 minutes into the presentation if you want to go straight to the Apollo content.
Exciting times ahead! I love the idea of being able to build desktop apps using web technologies - maybe that's because web technologies is all I know ;-)
I feel overwhelmed, in a good way. Not only are we being handed Flex2 and Flash9/AS3 but Apollo is also scheduled to be released for preview on Labs later this year(!) with a version 1.0 out in 2007.
And who knows, maybe Adobe is working on FMS3. And if they are I would bet they will add AS3 support. One can wish.
#1 by Marco Casario on 7/5/06 - 12:27 PM
ciao
http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/apollo/index.html...
#2 by Todd Coulson on 7/5/06 - 2:10 PM
#3 by stoem on 7/5/06 - 3:10 PM
What's more I have a feeling that Apollo will penetrate much deeper and quicker than Central, Adobe will make sure of that - and remember, Central was 'just' a playground for developers whereas Apollo will be a heavily consumer facing runtime.
#4 by Niklas Bivald on 7/24/06 - 12:58 PM