Edit: On further reading everything I speculated below is pretty much wrong and inapplicable. That, and now that people are paying for subscriptions they (prag

Edit: On further reading everything I speculated below is pretty much wrong and inapplicable. That, and now that people are paying for subscriptions they (pragmatically, if not strictly legally) have to guarantee a particular level of user experience. Even though AIR is cross platform (write-once look almost same almost anywhere) having only a single platform that's legal to use helps cut down on customer support headaches.