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by stackthat 5731 days ago
This is a big deal, if Google improve Android Store as well then new Android - AIR apps can be a new era for Android.
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I think this would be a bigger deal if AIR was made available on Blackberry QNX, Windows 7 Phone and WebOS as well.

I'm not sure that most desktop AIR apps will translate nicely to the mobile experience at first, nor will you see a lot of nice ports of desktop AIR apps for some time.

Having AIR across all the major mobile OS's (except Apple's) would make it quite compelling as a mobile development platform, though.

I got a mail from Adobe today as a part of the prerelease program. They'll soon have a private beta of Adobe air for iPhone and qnx for select developers (those who impress them with good apps for air for android, which will be shown at MAX 2010).
Adobe Air IS available on RIM's tablet http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash/blackberrytabos/
That's the obvious plan isn't it? Sure iPhone won't be in the list but that's because of Apple not Adobe.