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Politely: I won't install an Adobe Air app unless forced to by me employer. Maybe that's how this will work, but Air is always a drag in my personal experience.


Again, it would be great to get feedback on exactly why it's a drag.


Because it's Yet Another Runtime that I Don't Want to Have to Install and Maintain.

I have yet to see an AIR application that is truly cross-platform functional. They run, but that doesn't mean that I want to spend time in them.

I hadn't heard of hall.com before this post, but while I appreciate that (a) you've done this out of response to your users (good) and (b) you've done this because it's faster than doing something else, (c) I don't install AIR.

These days, I only want .apps that include everything I need inside of the app bundle and don't require external installations. (I say this as someone shipping a USB stick with an app that, to apply an update of the app on the stick from the Mac, you have to have a driver installed. I don't want that driver, but I have to. Can't stand it.)


Excellent! Thanks for the feedback. That's the type of useful information we need.


Why don't you give them real feedback? This site thrives on collaboration not "one-liners" like what you provided.


@sohn, care to elaborate?


y? do tell




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