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AIR and Flex are two very different beasts.

Not really. Air is Flex packaged up to run as a standalone desktop app.

Really. Air is AS3 (which can be Flex or not) packaged to run as (standalone) desktop app, android and ios.

Also Flex is now open source and continues to be one of the best cross plattform dev frameworks.

> continues to be one of the best cross plattform dev frameworks

If you don't care about performance or quality of interface