Interview: Adobe’s Director of AIR Product Management Ed Rowe
DMN: Ed, thanks for taking time to meet with us today. Can you begin by explaining what Adobe AIR is and the reason why Adobe has developed this solution?
ER: Adobe is a leader in Web-based technologies. We have Flash, Dreamweaver and Flex. There are millions of amazing Web solutions leveraging these technologies. Developers like the Web for its reach and the immediacy to update solutions. This allows for shorter development cycles and more releases. Customers love this. Customers also love their desktop applications. It is great to have an icon on your desktop and data stored on your system. The barrier Adobe saw is that innovation is not happening on the desktop at the same rapid rate as seen on the Web. Adobe`s AIR is changing this. Adobe AIR is essentially a runtime that allows you to disconnect your Web solutions, using Flash, HTML or AJAX, and run them as applications on your desktop. As a developer and designer you can take the creative solutions you have running in the Web and deliver them to the desktop. This helps fix a huge business problem.
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