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How about a combination that speaks to non-Flash Platform aware readers 
as well:

Apache Flex is an framework for building applications that run on web 
browsers, desktops and devices (smartphones and tablets). It is an 
ActionScript 3 based framework
that uses Adobe Flash Player (browsers) and Adobe AIR (desktop and 
devices) at runtime.

On 8/4/2012 3:26 PM, aYo ~ wrote:
> Modifying Brent's description a wee bit -
> Apache Flex is an ActionScript 3 based framework for building applications
> that run on the Flash Player and Adobe AIR
> On Aug 4, 2012 11:20 PM, "Brent Arnold" <brent@brentarnold.com> wrote:
>
>> How about: "Apache Flex is an ActionScript 3 based framework that runs on
>> the Flash platform, including Flash Player and Adobe AIR".
>>
>> Brent
>>
>> On 8/4/12 9:20 AM, Alex Harui wrote:
>>   On 8/4/12 2:16 AM, "Justin Mclean" <justin@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> That's a bit more inclusive? Perhaps change to "Flash and AIR based" or
>>>> drop
>>>> "Flash-based" altogether?
>>>>
>>> Jeffry Houser suggested "Flash Platform-based" which is what we used in
>>> the
>>> announcement.
>>>
>>>