Why're you suspicious of it?
It's just another platform made by Adobe, like Flash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
People are making all sorts of great things on it, this Google Reader setup being one. Also, Pandora!
http://www.pandora.com/desktop
This stuff is the awesome, as they say.
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