While the MeeGo community moves forward towards its May 1st Release, Intel is is moving forward with the AppStore framework that will available for use in MeeGo. Today Intel announce that their AppUp Center, is now available for Moblin (which will migrate to MeeGo) and that it will begin accepting Euro and Pound payments opening it up to another 300+ million people.
We have this announcement from Intel:
Intel today introduced Intel AppUpSM Center Beta for Moblin v2.1-based netbooks in the U.S. and Canada. Intel AppUp Center offers a wide range of applications, spanning games, entertainment and social media apps that are optimized for the netbook’s mobility and screen size. Additionally, Intel announced the Intel AppUp center beta for Windows and Moblin v2.1 will become available in 27 European countries on March 31. The expansion into Europe gives application developers in the Intel® Atomâ„¢ Developer Program an opportunity to reach consumers in one of the top markets for netbooks worldwide and complete transactions in USD, Euros or GBP. Future updates to the Intel AppUp Center will support the MeeGo software platform and smartphones, consumer electronics and additional devices.
Clearly the target is netbooks here and although there aren’t many Moblin versions knocking around in the market yet, you can download and install V2.1 from a USB stick on almost any netbook. However, that’s not really the end-game here. The application framework used for the AppUp store now allows OEMs to build Linux-base netbooks with a full payment-enabled application store that adds value and opens possibilities for developers and as we look forward to handhelds and netbooks based on MeeGo, you start to get the bigger picture about why this is happening and what the potential is.
I’ll be taking a closer look at the AppUp center for Moblin as soon as it appears. We’re expecting an announcement on the AppUp store website.
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I will not be purchasing any apps, if that is where they want to go to, especially not for a linux based platform.
I’d prefer running Xubuntu or Ubuntu netbook remix instead.
Or just XP where I have all the programs I need.
I figure this AppStore is laying groundwork for smartphone implementations of the Atom. On there, you have no choice of OS.