Provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom-based devices.
Gives OEMs and the ecosystem a framework to deliver great new applications directly to consumers.
What is the business model? How do I make money?
Developers will set the price for their applications and will receive up to 70% of the revenue from every sale from every store. Infrastructure operational expenses and partner revenue will be covered from the remaining portion.
Developers can choose to use some of their revenue in exchange for things like promotion.
Developers can also build and sell application components the Developer Store in exchange for a % share of revenue from every application sold which uses their component.
What is available today?
Today developers and ISVs can join and become members of the Intel Atom Developer Program. As a member, developers will have access to technical information and updates, and can create components and applications for the Intel Atom Developer Program.
To formally submit an application you must use the Intel AppStore SDK, which will be available soon.
Tell me about components and the developer catalog.
The developer catalog will list components available to help accelerate your development and to implement useful and innovative functionality. Each component includes its own API and documentation.
When a developer uses your component in their application, you can receive a portion of their application revenue. The amount of the revenue sharing agreement is negotiated between the component and application developers.
Having a catalog of reusable components should help speed up application development process and also provides component developers with a way to make money.
What runtimes are supported?
Intel works with the software community to make Intel processors the platform of choice for the customers chosen operating environment. Today, the Intel Atom Developer Program supports Windows and Moblin-based operating environments, and Java* and Adobe AIR* runtime support in the future.
The Intel Atom processor platform is an open environment and we expect other environments will be supported as phone and new devices based on the Intel Atom processor to come on board as customer and market demand indicates.
