Adobe AIR article on the most popular italian newspaper
The most populare and read italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, has published an article about Adobe AIR technology. It's not so often that a newspaper in Italy talks about an emerging technology so it's a very positive aspect.
The article is in italian, but the translation of the title is something like : Adobe AIR beyond the Web 2.0 (thanks to Gianfranco to point it out)
A great way to begin the new year ;)
Thanks for the tip, Marco. For those of us who are more comfortable in English than Italian, here's Google's machine translation of the article:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corriere.it%2Fscienze_e_tecnologie%2F07_dicembre_31%2Fadobe_integrated_runtime_3c0e0c20-b7b2-11dc-87d4-0003ba99c667.shtml&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Posted by: John Dowdell | January 11, 2008 at 06:46 PM
Uhm.... reading the article (the italian version...) it looks like the guy seems to have few ideas but very well confused about what AIR is supposed to be, in closing he says:
"So, thanks to Adobe AIR, applications no longer live in the Internet as in Web 2.0 and they don't affect the system by slowing it down or taking too much disk space"
as any average programmer may confirm, size of an application depends on who write them more or less efficiently and what an application need to perform. Especially if such applications require to download a Runtime (that evidently takes disk space and can slowdown the system according to the author....) before being used.
It is easy to create applications that slow down the system in any language/enviroment, AIR is not going to solve this problem; in fact it will give the illusion to far too many people that "I can do desktop programming myself me". Call it the VisualBasic of the 21st century...
The author seems also to ignore that the AIR Runtime uses and writes to the Windows Registry itself to keep tracks of application usage without doing proper housekeeping and judging from the number of people on Labs that have problem on installing, upgrading, running and removing AIR applications, it doesn't look like a smooth experience as the article would like to portrait.
Oh by the way, he also reveal a final scoop: "there is also a new version of AirPhone, a mobile handset that is very similar to the iPhone [uhm... confusing a software application with a physical device here?!?!?!] but allows you to make calls into the 'cyberspace' ".... gosh, this guy needs an immediate update on buzzwords, he didn't use "ecosystem" a single time while talking about an Adobe product... bloody journalists....
Posted by: Emanuele Cipolloni | January 11, 2008 at 11:27 PM