Intel Working on a Netbook App Store
PrintIntel has announced that they are moving ahead with reckless abandon to create an app store for netbooks. Their goal is to have the store preinstalled on all Atom based netbooks running both Windows and Mobiln. The apparent model for the store is suspiciously similar to that of the Apple App Store. Developers would get 70% of sales and the remaining 30% would go to Intel. Intel also plans to review apps in a manner similar to Apple, but hopefully Intel won’t be as fussy.
It’s an interesting idea, but few details are available. Intel simply claims the store will launch sometime in 2010. Developers can get the SDK now from the Intel site. Will anyone be able to create compelling enough paid apps to attract users? After all, most netbooks are Windows based and there are a plethora of applications that run just fine on them. Do you expect anything interesting to come of this, or is the idea of a closed netbook app store a non-starter?
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nekollx
December 04, 2009 at 9:41am
Color me interested
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daveyd
December 04, 2009 at 12:44am
My netbook is collecting dust right now, in favor of my desktop pc. I'm sure that will change with the advent of the Intel's App Store. It would be nice to browse a single place for all the tiny apps that are available and coded for these 'green' chips. I'm already excited! :)
daveyd
December 04, 2009 at 12:44am
My netbook is collecting dust right now, in favor of my desktop pc. I'm sure that will change with the advent of the Intel's App Store. It would be nice to browse a single place for all the tiny apps that are available and coded for these 'green' chips. I'm already excited! :)
1337Goose
December 03, 2009 at 7:56pm
Hey, Windows users have never been able to reap the benefits of software repositories. This is actually an excellent way to deploy applications.
Recognize that there's more here than just an App store.
~Goose
EmilH1791
December 03, 2009 at 7:41pm
This App Store might be quite successful. I'm a minimalist, but I don't own a netbook because some applications I use will just turn the netbook into a portable radiator. These apps would be targetted only for netbooks and by nature, will be (hopefully) resource-friendly. None of that screen-hogging stuff, etc. Plus Google, and of course YouTube, just came out with "feather" (light) versions of their pages. What great timing. Intel just needs to find a way to draw developers in. I'm looking forward to it and interested in how this will be played out.
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