Apollo: a new way of interacting?

Adobe is trying to increase its strength on the desktop with Apollo. I a nutshell Apollo is a way to push compelling functionality to the users PC. A small runtime that interacts with a server to obtain forms and send back user response.

Do we need another webbrowser and will Apollo become the defacto standard for interacting with users? I doubt it, so far other efforts including Flex from Adobe as well have not gained mainstream. One application that does it all, the web browser seems a hard one to beat.

At least we have something to watch and play with in 2007.