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Someone decided to release these apps in that state, and it wasn't Adobe. Furthermore, it was Apple's vaunted review process that passed these badly working ap

• glhaynes 15y ago
  AIR and Flex have reputations for being slow even on desktops. It's just like Java on the desktop - yeah, it probably can be used to make nice-feeling stuff, but there's something going on with either the dev tools, the VM, the culture, or something that seems to make these apps tend to be, more often than not, really unpleasant.
• modernerd 15y ago
  Yet Adobe has decided to feature 'badly working' apps in their showcase to display what's possible with their tools. My interpretation as a developer considering their software to build iOS apps is that the apps in their showcase are indicative of what I'd be able to produce for iOS with Flash Builder/Flex.
• albedoa 15y ago
  Am I wrong, or did you just repeat the OP's point? He already knows that these apps are sloppy. He said exactly that: >I've yet to see a third-party platform that offers 'support for building iOS apps' result in good user experiences and positive reviews. Can you provide any apps that result in good user experiences as counterexamples? Or were you not disagreeing with him and I'm just reading you wrong?