The Future of AIR for Mobile.... ? Uncertain?

Just wondering what everyone elses thoughts are on this. There's a lot of chatter going on about this.
Looking at Adobe's roadmap for Flash ( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html )
ActionScript "Next" development has been cancelled
Flash Player "Next" development has been cancelled
AIR for Windows 8 "Modern UI" has been cancelled
Kevin Lynch (Adobe CTO) has left Adobe to go to Apple ( didnt see that one coming )
The thing I don't get about Adobe is how they are pimping out that AIR be used only for gaming. You don't ever hear them say that AIR is a great platform for developing Multiplatform Mobile Apps.... which it is! I would argue its the best simply because of how easy it is to develop multi-platform apps with ease.
I work in corporate marketing in a billion dollar+ company and I'm using AIR for mobile apps and it's awesome!
Now looking at my own personal roadmap moving forward... do I want to keep AIR on the radar ?
I've also built apps using PhoneGap, etc.. and its a nightmare. It's tedius, performance is mediocre. I really felt that AIR was moving in the right direction.
I'm going to Adobe MAX in May.. I'm hoping that they announce something enlightening.
What are your thoughts ?

I think opposite. I think Adobe is failing to see what a potential it is. I agree with all of your points about how great Flash Pro is to work in. I just created a game for an arcade cabinet, iPhone, iPad, Android & BB10 all in a single build. That's pretty amazing.
However I think the writing is on the wall at this point.
ActionScript4 "Next" development has been cancelled
Flash Player "Next" development has been cancelled
AIR for Windows 8 "Modern UI" has been cancelled
These 3 are huge.
Also Adobe's CTO and biggest advocate for Flash leaves Adobe to go to Apple.
Adobe is betting on HTML5. I hope that in the future Adobe releases a tool like Flash Pro that does everything the same except uses JavaScript. This would be nice.
It's really confusing to me though .. Adobe says "To build mobile apps use PhoneGap" .. but to build mobile games use AIR.
Why not promote how powerful AIR is at building Mobile Apps?
Adobe MAX this year is going to be very interesting that's for sure.

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Any ideas?

It is possible. The thing is Apple won't let developers put their AIR apps into Apple's iTunes store.

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Hi,
Any idea when adobe air for mobiles is coming out and on what phones will it be available?
Thanks,
Gaurav

Sorry, only Apple will know that, Rob; and even if we knew, nobody would be allowed to post it here, before the raw support has been released.
Keep checking this link. Apple - Aperture - Technical Specifications - RAW Support
I'm waiting for the Aperture update so I can start playing with my pics.
I can understand, that you are eager to try your new camera - try Adobe's DNG converter, while you are waiting - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Macintos h
or shoot rwa&jpeg and set the Import panel to import raw&jpeg, with the jpeg as original. YOu can change that later, when the raw support has been released, and use the raw files you imported.
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An iPad is a downgrade from your MacBook Air.
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The development of Doki is based entirely on Adobe Air . The result is spectacular. With a development team that consisted of 5 programmers, 2 designers, 3 language specialists, one assistant programmer, plus a team of 4 testers, the gigantic project of 14 apps was completed in less than a year, resulting in very low development costs!
Please visit http://www.dokispeak.com for further details.

Pretty cool.

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Added one yesterday:
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3560258
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I cannot get Flash player 11.4 to connect with air 3.7 on iOS either.
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What was talked about today is the development of the Flash Player for mobile browsers, that will end after the next version is released. iOS is not affected by that, because Flash didn't work in Safari on iOS anyway.
Adobe did talk about how they were going to do more with AIR mobile apps, so if anything today's announcements is good news for AIR for iOS.

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It appears you may be confusing iOS with Android a little bit. The article you referenced was speaking solely about iOS, not Android. So, yes, they were correct.
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