Tell me again ... Why Flex / AiR ?

Considering the ongoing half-baked mess of Flex components, SQLite with full-text-search that Adobe choked off from the open source version and equally compromised WebKit ... Tell me again ... Why Flex / AiR ... now that HTML5 is shaping up nicely and with enough jQuery UI components ... WHY BOTHER WITH ADOBE and especially if someone is just starting major projects ?

The reason really hasn't changed. HTML 5 has a different utilization in the different browser platforms (it's up to the browser to decide how to render.)
Flex/AIR uses the Flash runtime to guarantee consitent presentation across multiple platforms. With the new version of the IDE and Framework available in beta, it also will publish to mobile platforms creating apps that will be consistent user experiences across multiple app OS's.
So you get one development environment to publish your software to a great number of audiences with confidence that their experience is exactly what you designed/developed.
I'm sorry but I don't understand the reference to half baked Flex components. The new architecture is extending very well and also supports the old framework. Instead of truly understanding the power of the tool, it appears your sources are a bit weak. I've done quite a bit of work with Flex and with .NET and they work very well together.
There is an upcoming Flex 360 conference next month in Denver. I highly encourage you to go.I don't see Flash going away anytime soon and it has recently become even more relevent with the mobile ports.
Don't get left behind!

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