One Thing I'm Loving About Apollo...

Okay, this is not earth-shattering by any means, but Apollo has turned out to be a great testing platform. Though, eventually, I plan to release my application in a browser, during development, testing in a browser is annoying.

Specifically, Apollo provides the following benefits:
1. I can leave my browser open in the background while testing, and not be distracted by multiple windows/tabs being spawned.
2. I can use the File API to save and load data sets for testing. This is much better than dealing with the shared object, or static XML files.
3. I can use the File API to log test data to a file.
4. When debugging, trace() statements get logged directly into the Eclipse console.
5. When I'm ready to deploy in the browser, converting an Apollo application to a regular Flex application is simple.

In short, even if you're not interested in creating desktop applications, you might still want to give Apollo a try.