Apollo is the next killer application signed by Adobe. I'm pretty sure about that.
At MAX Keynote session Kevin Lynch and Ed Rowe, leads the engineering team for Apollo, showed us the power of Apollo technologies.
I took some photos but there's one that makes me, as developer, think on a new generation of applications that Apollo will permit to develop.
Kevin Rowe showed us the Google Maps web application embedded into an Apollo container :
Apollo will open the frontier to run complex web applications using web technologies such as HTML, Javascript and AJAX on your desktop.
The next question is :
What if Apollo will reach the same penetration rate the Flash Player reached (more than 97%) ?
Maybe we'll never open the browser again :)
I prefer to think about Central not as a failure but as a test.
The ShockMachine wow, john... how memories !!
Posted by: Marco Casario | October 26, 2006 at 03:03 AM
For what it's worth, the ShockMachine project towards 1996 was an even earlier Macromedia attempt at easy distribution of your content beyond the browser.
It's a new type of endeavor... the first analogy I think of is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
Posted by: John Dowdell | October 26, 2006 at 02:26 AM
Central was a platform on it's own but Apollo opens it up even more. To run a custom app using Central you first had to have central open, then load your desired app. Once you install Apollo your apps are just like any other app on your computer. You have an icon for it, you can place it in your start menu, and it even adds an entry for itself within the Add/Remove Programs list.
Did Central have I/O capability? Apollo does (amongst other benefits).
Think of Central as a little testing ground for what Apollo could/is becoming.
Posted by: Steven | October 25, 2006 at 08:09 PM