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July 21, 2006
Kevin Lynch talks about Apollo, FlashLite, Microsoft and more
In this interview over at the Wharton School of Business, Kevin Lynch discusses Adobe Apollo and Adobe's vision for the Engagement Platform, as well as competition with Microsoft, Flash Video, FlashLite and mobile and other interesting topics.
I thought it was great that Kevin mentioned the fact that not all applications will be appropriate for Apollo. I think its important that we set expectations on that early.
I enjoyed reading the parts about Microsoft and WPF, and their plans for WPF/E. I think Kevin brings up a great point when he mentions that yes, Microsoft is planning to take WPF to other operating systems, but their history hasn't been very good at supporting those other OSes... Think about Internet Explorer on the Mac or Windows Media Player on the Mac.
Finally, I thought the parts about mobile applications and development were interesting. I'm not completely up to speed on development for mobile applications, but I do think that its something that Adobe can really help drive. I think the idea of a single toolset for developers with the ability to output to desktop applications (Apollo), web applications (Flash player) and mobile devices (FlashLite) is appealing to a number of developers. I also think its something we need to talk more about, because its a major advantage for Adobe and Flash development.
technorati tags:apollo, flash, mobile, video, adobe
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