Intel CEO Paul Otellini reveals some remarkable tidbits in his major address this week at the 2009 Intel Developers Forum. He exposed a next-generation 22nm chip for 2011 as well as addressed current improvements in the EU antitrust case next to Intel, amongst additional things. The item that jammed my concentration although was Otellini declaring that Intel is rolling away an app store.

The exhortation of Otellini's lecture to was ‘continuum'. Otellini used the word, rife with worrying Borg-like connotations, to explain Intel's development from serving the individual PC market to serving the personal computing marketplace.

That tendency isn't fresh; per se. Processors as well as microchips have been used in the whole thing from handheld calculators as well as personal computers to washing machines plus refrigerators for several times. The amounts of chip-enabled devices with the range of the functionality they offer have sustained to develop though.

The development of cellular phone into micro-laptops, as well as of laptops into mobile devices is presently one feature of the immigration from standard computing sitting in front of a computer to computing anyplace as well as anytime in the continuum actually.

As an illustration of the escalating scope of computing, Otellini pointed to fresh deals Intel has forged with automobile company Daimler as well as BMW to offer Atom-based entertainment systems in vehicles.

To sustain the continuum as well as the developing individual computing platform, Intel is also jumping on the app store bandwagon. Intel wants to offer the tools as well as platform to support developers to make applications for Atom-based devices. It plans to commence appdeveloper.intel.com as a development platform as well as finally present applications to end-users in an Atom app store.

In spite of, the app store thing is getting exposed of hand. The platform for giving out apps was a pioneering idea for Apple as well as it has worked well for them. That doesn't mean every corporation, device, or else platform wants to submerge us with their individual version.

What occur when you start to have crossover? Like, a Blackberry operating on an Atom-based device? How would you settle on which app store to shop at? Perhaps we can start an app store for app stores? Sort of the Walmart of app stores. In its place of having to visit a separate app store for each device you own you could just visit the app store clearinghouse for one-stop-shopping. Think about it.