Comments on: iPhone moving from ARM to x86? UMPC OEMs take note

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:14:31 +0000

Antoine, the current Apple policy is no 3rd party apps, but that has no bearing on the future policy. My point was that this may be one of the several reasons for no apps yet; Apple can't easily offer the mechanism for 3rd party apps if their strategy is to change chip architecture.

Mike, many Windows Mobile phone devices up to a year or so ago were powered by Intel mobile handset chips; they sold that business off to Marvell. Now there are other players: TI, Samsung, etc...

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:59:19 +0000

What Intel chips are currently powering cellphones? I don't know of any. Are there any?!

By: Antoine of MMM/Brighthand

Antoine of MMM/Brighthand — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:42:50 +0000

Why does application compatability matter on the iPhone when its not officially supported to download any apps to the iPhone? Since anything that is approved is a browser app, that needs nothing at all from the side of the end-user.

If you will, this transistion will not effect any users using their devices in an approved manner, only those with extensions that hack various aspects of the system.

By: Rodfather

Rodfather — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:25:46 +0000

Should be a no brainer there. OSX runs x86. Moorestown will run 50% less power than Menlow which is already around 0.5W. That's getting close to ARM processors and it should at least run as fast as today's Celerons.
Will have to wait a bit for that to come out.
Linux devs better work hard on MID's.