Adobe Apollo Released

The early part of this century has been dominated by software companies moving applications off the desktop and over to the Web. Now, Adobe is offering web developers a chance to move in the opposite direction. The company has released the first developer preview version of its Apollo toolset, which lets Web developers create desktop applications that can interact with any site on the Internet.

It’s hard to see at this point how useful Apollo will be, but it seems it will be for a selective audience. The example they gave was an eBay application that allows you to create auctions while offline. They will just be entered as soon as the PC is next online. There are a lot of different uses… just a matter or seeing what people decide to do with it.

Source: Ars Technica