At this year’s Adobe Max gathering in Tokyo, Adobe announced that Adobe AIR, their cross runtime environment for RIAs crossed the 100 Million successful download mark. As far as developers went, they claim that there were over 1 million downloads of the AIR software development kit, open source Flex framework and Adobe Flex builder. This is a massive achievement for AIR, whose public beta launch (it was then called Apollo) was in March 2007 and since then close to 400 Adobe Apps have been made by developers all over the world.
At the same time more than 55% of the computers in the world now have Adobe Flash Player 10 installed, and Adobe is expecting this to go up to 80% by mid 2009. As of now, Flash is anyway the most popular software platform with 99% penetration into the world’s computers if this study is to be believed.
Adobe said that none of this would’ve been possible without the help of some amazing AIR applications since they claim that it’s these applications that have helped the downloads reach such a number rather than the Adobe.com website
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Here are some cool Adobe AIR apps that you must try out:
Tweetdeck &Twirl: If you’re a twitter nut then Tweetdeck and Twirl are by far the best twitter clients out there. Tweetdeck also has a built-in re-tweet option.
Desktube: A youtube app for your desktop which lets you have complete control. You can watch, search, and download the videos (as .mov fies).
Google Analytics: With this app you can now open multiple tabs for viewing your reports and can also change the date range faster.
Apart from this there’s Yammer, which is basically a twitter for business organisations and eBay desktop which makes it easier to shop and sell on eBay.
For the complete list of the top Adobe AIR apps(by number of downloads) go here
So what other cool Adobe AIR apps do you use? Do discuss in the comments section below.
