This Talkcrunch podcast about Adobe’s Apollo is interesting. Looks like interesting technology, in as much as rehashes of current capabilities and repackaging of current technologies are interesting. But what strikes me about this podcast is that, in 2006, there are people, presumably technically inclined, still dealing with email syncing between mutliple machines and having off-line access. Near the beginning of the podcast (9 minutes), that is one example of trying to handle on-line and off-line access that, presumably, a properly written email application written in Apollo could solve. There has to be a better example. The protocols and products that deal with this have been around for a while. They are IMAP and email applications that support working off-line. I read my email regularly from four different machines using a variety of different applications and operating systems using these technologies.