Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Adobe's RJ's in full spin mode.

Here is a recent video interview by Beet.TV with our CTO, Kevin Lynch, where he mentions that the Adobe AIR runtime environment has been installed on 35 million PCs and will reach 100 million by the end of the year, due to so many great AIR applications being built by our customers. Incidentally, one of my personal favorite AIR applications is eBay desktop developed by eBay, which recently announced on their blog that eBay desktop had already been downloaded a million times.

Anyone pickup on the problem with the above blog post from an Adobe Evangelist named, RJ Jacquez?

  1. 35 million PC's? it was 25million last count so unless there is a new stats release i've not read from Adobe or did he just add another 10million on to inflate it further?
  2. 100 million PC's will have Acrobat Reader 9 installed by end of 2008.
  3. The installs aren't a result of "so many great AIR applications built by customers" it's actually due to the Adobe Acrobat Reader 9. That being said, it sure sounded good though, had me almost convinced.

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