with air you can write in

as
html5
js
and c+

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/nati...s-for-air.html

you can release on all major platforms, from one code base, you can't do that with anything other platform, it's because adobe owns the market for dev tools, if you did any acutal dev work you would know this, but you fix old laides computers when they get facebook viruises