Why is the protocol of the Adobe Mobile Platform better than open standards/HTTP?
The client/server protocol in the Adobe Mobile Platform has been developed to optimize the use of network bandwidth compared to a standard HTTP session. For example, comparing a weather channel with twice daily data updates to a user visiting a weather web page twice a day, the monthly data transfer for a Flash Cast channel would be 88KB of data compared to 2,128KB of data using the standard HTTP connection to a web page.