Comments on: Second thoughts on Apollo http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/second-thoughts-on-apollo Ruben Swieringa on Actionscript and a whole lot of other stuff.. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: adampasz http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/second-thoughts-on-apollo/comment-page-1#comment-52 adampasz Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:03:40 +0000 http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/second-thoughts-on-apollo#comment-52 It's funny, I was the opposite of a lot of people. it took me a long time to *get* Flex, but Apollo made sense to me immediately from the day I heard about it, and was one of the reasons I pushed myself to "graduate" to AS3. You're absolutely right that the potential of HTML integration is huge. At this point we can only begin to imagine the uses people will dream up for it, but they could go far beyond being mere mash-ups. Is a Apollo going to be a guaranteed success? Not necessarily. Strong technology is one thing, but it needs to be coupled with effective execution of a strategy on the business side. But so far the signs are positive. It’s funny, I was the opposite of a lot of people. it took me a long time to *get* Flex, but Apollo made sense to me immediately from the day I heard about it, and was one of the reasons I pushed myself to “graduate” to AS3.

You’re absolutely right that the potential of HTML integration is huge. At this point we can only begin to imagine the uses people will dream up for it, but they could go far beyond being mere mash-ups.

Is a Apollo going to be a guaranteed success? Not necessarily. Strong technology is one thing, but it needs to be coupled with effective execution of a strategy on the business side. But so far the signs are positive.

]]> By: Ruben http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/second-thoughts-on-apollo/comment-page-1#comment-51 Ruben Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:38:37 +0000 http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/second-thoughts-on-apollo#comment-51 You're right, I did actually fail to mention the on-/offline detection, this was however not completely unintended. I think the drag&drop and copy/paste features are a little more exciting mainly because they could previously not (or very difficultly) be implemented in Flash/Flex applications, where the on-/offline detection could already be created, and with less hassle, albeit still a fair lot of hassle ;) That of course does not mean that your point wasn't worth mentioning at all, so thanks! :) You’re right, I did actually fail to mention the on-/offline detection, this was however not completely unintended.
I think the drag&drop and copy/paste features are a little more exciting mainly because they could previously not (or very difficultly) be implemented in Flash/Flex applications, where the on-/offline detection could already be created, and with less hassle, albeit still a fair lot of hassle ;)
That of course does not mean that your point wasn’t worth mentioning at all, so thanks! :)

]]> By: Peter Baird http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/second-thoughts-on-apollo/comment-page-1#comment-50 Peter Baird Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/second-thoughts-on-apollo#comment-50 Another feature that you don't mention that I've been hearing gaining a lot of interest is the idea of online / offline detection and usage. Image all the online applcations our there that have a "my-fill-in-the-blank" (e.g., my Photos, my Addressbook, my etc.). Now imagine keeping that experience when you're connected... you can go to any computer and access the website still, or access the data from an apollo app... but now, you're on a plane, you can still access your photos (flikr account or something)... add more photos, edit captions, whatever, while you're on the plane, since it's all cached on your drive, and next time it detects a internet connection automatically updates the changes you've made. I'm using a familiar consumer example here with photos, but this is actually a functionality that a lot of business apps have been asking for for a long time, and there's where I see a lot of the interest in the enterprise app space. Another feature that you don’t mention that I’ve been hearing gaining a lot of interest is the idea of online / offline detection and usage. Image all the online applcations our there that have a “my-fill-in-the-blank” (e.g., my Photos, my Addressbook, my etc.). Now imagine keeping that experience when you’re connected… you can go to any computer and access the website still, or access the data from an apollo app… but now, you’re on a plane, you can still access your photos (flikr account or something)… add more photos, edit captions, whatever, while you’re on the plane, since it’s all cached on your drive, and next time it detects a internet connection automatically updates the changes you’ve made.

I’m using a familiar consumer example here with photos, but this is actually a functionality that a lot of business apps have been asking for for a long time, and there’s where I see a lot of the interest in the enterprise app space.

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