Yet Another Closed Platform - Sound Familiar?

[KenR]

Here is an interesting blog post warning programmers not to use Adobe's new Apollo Software Platform

Why would someone want to lock themselves into a proprietary, closed platform - like Apollo?
Unfortunately none of the (so-called) analyst, experts out there plugging Adobe - has brought this up yet. I’m not sure why they think that desktop based apps - connected to the Internet - are so new or different - or why locking yourself into an Adobe platform is smart, but both Scoble, Wilson and Arrington seem to love it.

http://blog.broadban...ther-closed-platform

from http://www.downloadsquad.com/

[iphigenie]

It's proprietary, but it's not closed - it's a bit like PDF which was another proprietary but fully documented format and system which allowed a lot of people to create competitors to Acrobat.

The same thing is happening with Flash, there are many tools you can use to build flash

I'm all for open but I am also all for things that work on many platforms at the same level with a certain guarantee of survival and further development. Flash / Flex / Apollo is in many way a lot more cohesive, coherent and multi-platform compatible than a lot of the alternatives including open source.