I’m certainly not saying that AIR is the only (or the first) kid on the block. And it’s certainly not going to be the last entrant into the RIA on the desktop domain, but I do think it has the best chance of being the most widely adopted. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t space for others to succeed.

At the moment I can build and deploy an AIR app for free and that appeals to most developers. It also means we’ll probably see an expansion of the widget type apps. Large scale enterprises may well look at alternatives to AIR and different licensing models, but for the average web design workshop, they’ll go with AIR.