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ecaron
5227 days ago
Adobe killing AIR for Linux didn't impact/slow AIR's growth in the slightest, so I would have to assume this change will also have zero impact.
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drats
5227 days ago
Can't tell if you are serious. Who uses AIR? I've never seen it.
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winthrowe
5227 days ago
Grooveshark's desktop app used it. Only place I've personally seen it in the wild.
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gcp
5227 days ago
Simfy (another Spotify competitor) also uses it.
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tbassetto
5227 days ago
http://www.balsamiq.com
is a popular software among people doing wireframes. The Desktop version is based on AIR (and it's the only reason why I've installed AIR on my Mac).
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pbhjpbhj
5227 days ago
BBC use it for their iPlayer app (well hidden though) so I imagine the UK installation base of Air to be pretty large in comparison to other regions.
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rsynnott
5226 days ago
Certain Twitter clients. That seems to be about it. :)
(It's sometimes used for in-house stuff, but then what isn't?)
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firebird84
5227 days ago
League of Legends still uses AIR I believe.
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riffraff
5227 days ago
tweetdeck was hugely popular and written with AIR, but I believe they went native some time ago.
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ecaron
5227 days ago
Native on Mac & Windows, Chrome-only for Linux (which just isn't the same experience as AIR offered)
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