Sunday, June 10, 2007

I'm an Airhead now!


... but my wife could have told you that a long time ago. :-)


Adobe has renamed the Apollo runtime as "Air" (Adobe Integrated Runtime), and I like the new name. Apollo was a good code name, and "Air" is a nice product name. It also helps that the file format for Apollo bundles was already called a ".AIR" file.


I've been involved with enough products over the years to see my fair share of silly product names ending up with "designed by committee" feel to them. (Ironically, best described by this in-house Microsoft ad parody).


Congrats to the Air team.


New stuff on Adobe labs today:

Air beta installer: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html

Flex 3 beta: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/


Enjoy.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Doug,

That's a great parody; good for a chuckle.


p.s. Your link is busted. It's missing the ht of http.

Theatre of Discombobulation said...

Thhanks for writing this