Intel to launch iPhone-style appstore

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Dan Warne23 September 2009, 7:31 AM

The appstore concept is fast spreading to PCs, with Intel launching its own iPhone-style appstore concept.


As a chipmaker, Intel's probably the last company you'd expect to launch an iPhone-style appstore, but given Intel's claim that Atom-based netbooks are bigger than the iPhone or Nintendo Wii, it makes more sense.

In fact, Intel itself won't be releasing app stores, but it is providing an app store infrastructure for hardware makers to launch their own.  

ASUS, Dell and Acer are the first companies to announce they will launch one. ASUS' will be called the Eee App store.

Where manufacturers ship both Windows and Linux-based netbooks, the app store will include apps that work on both. And if they ship mobile phones using Atom CPUs, they can publish mobile apps on there too.

Intel showed app store designs for a ficticious manufacturer "KYOL".



Dan Warne travelled to Intel Developer Forum San Francisco as a guest of Intel.

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Tony23 (User):

I hope companies don't start locking down their operating systems to make their appstores viable. That would seem to be at the heart of Apple's strategy. If this takes off, even more users will start thinking "hey, Linux comes with an appstore built in and it's completely free...what am I? Muggins?!?!"

23 September 2009, 7:55 AM (5 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Fornax (Regular user):

an app store for linux would be good if it provides an easy to use interface for people to find and install good linux apps for their specific distro. At the moment finding good apps and installing applications on linux is too hard for the novice.
I doubt these stores will have much impact on the windows crowd as people are used to the hunt for good apps on windows

23 September 2009, 11:25 AM (5 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

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