On the upside, there are a number of people talking about the need for digital dashboards. The reason for this IMHO, is as our information systems have begun to collect better and more accurate information, someone/something still needs to sift through the information and provides meeing. In knowledge management circles they call this information pollution.
With that said, Flex seems targets at application developers who need to provide meaning for stuff with a ton of data points. (You could debate if it is better for more application oriented items)
What applications would you an I need that requires crunching a lot of numbers and providing that information in a meaningful way? It seems to me that many of these applications will be business oriented instead of oriented at consumers (not to say that there are not good examples in for the need for this type of application in the personal finance arena, for example).
But I think you're right on the downside of these applications. Not all businesses or organizations have access to fat pipes.
Jeremy
>I've been doing some research into Flex recently and one of the things
>that has put me off of it is that it seems to not be a viable option for
>non-broadband users. From the swf's in my cache, it seems the smallest
>size is 100K and 150K isn't too uncommon for the sample apps on
>Macromedia.com. I know that some of my very involved DHTML apps that
>use common libraries may be getting close to that size, but at least
>with _javascript_, it can be cached. Maybe this is why is seems that
>Macromedia is targeting the big enterprise guys instead of the common
>developers.
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>I was thinking that it would be nice if the next version of the flash
>player would have the base classes built in, but that would probably
>make the player download quite large.
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