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Intel working on ARM-to-x86 tool to bring iOS apps to Atom-powered MeeGo phones
Without getting into too much detail, the processors used by Apple's devices (and almost every phone on the market) are not compatible with Intel's Atom processor. This tool would, in theory, make porting iOS apps to the MeeGo platform quite easy. There's also the added bonus that these apps might then work on Windows (or indeed, Mac OS X!)
Why such convoluted solutions are being worked on, I can only guess. Obviously Intel wants Atom-powered smartphones to take off in a big way, but why not simply push for more apps to be written in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript instead? That way every app would work on any phone or any computer.
MeeGo, if you haven't heard about it, is the successor to Nokia's previous open-source architecture, Maemo. MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system that Nokia will eventually use to power its smartphones in 2011. The Nokia N9, which is the only phone currently slated to run MeeGo, should be released by the end of the year. It also looks eerily similar to the MacBook Pro...
[via Reg Hardware]
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Subscribe to commentsChrisSskOct 6th 2010 2:52PM
Isn't Qt MeeGo's application framework?
Qt is 'write once, run everywhere' so applications made with Qt can run on x86, x86-64, ARM without (or with little) code modification.
Or is that just for the Nokia side of things with the Intel side going a different way?
BTW, MeeGo isn't Maemo. It's the result of the merge of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo. It supports both ARM and Intel x86 processors and the N9 will be an ARM device.
Sebastian AnthonyOct 6th 2010 3:09PM
Ah-hah! Thanks for the further info :) I didn't actually research the N9 -- I probably should have.
I'll rephrase the MeeGo/Maemo bit.
mkoOct 6th 2010 6:09PM
I thought Nokia N9 would have arm processor?