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I'm trying to understand the relationship between the Intel Atom Developer Program (IADP) and the new OS called MeeGo.

IADP let's me create applications that run on both MeeGo as well as Windows devices, as long as the device is based on the Atom processor. The IADP apps are published in an app store called AppUp, which is very much like the Apple App Store.

The MeeGo operating system merges Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo into one OS. The purpose seems to be to make it possible to develop software that will run on Intel powered devices, Nokia-made devices, as well devices from other companies. Nokia has its Ovi Store that will support MeeGo apps.

With its OS independent runtime, the question is what an IADP app really is? Is an IADP app a beast of its own, or is it just a MeeGo app that has been restricted to run only on Atom powered devices?

Will it be possible to recompile my IADP app to run on all MeeGo devices? Sold in Ovi Store?

Intel and Nokia have me really confused. Where should I go as a developer?

Georg Fritzsche
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If you really have to decide now, go qt. There are a lot of important decicions yet to be made. Last week on embedded systems Nürnberg, I spoke to both parties about meego, and even they have been preparing the merger behind close doors, very few people inside both companies were involved so far. No wonder developers are clueless at the moment. You are not the only one beeing confused.

I have been developing for atom but never with iadp and start developing with maemo. Qt is a save bet for developers because it is not only for Intel and Maemo, but used heavily in every major hardware platform so far. I decided to be happy about every advantage the MeeGo merger gives me and go with the progress of details being sorted out.

My guess: Don't wait for selling IADP apps in OVI store.

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  • It's going to be hard to compete for developers with the Android and iPhone platforms out there. – Arne Evertsson Mar 10 '10 at 10:49
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    But Qt has an edge: write once, compile for all. As mobile app market increases, developers will want that promise(that Java never held). And Qt is the last straw for Nokia:-) – Zimmermann Mar 12 '10 at 12:33
  • How would you see the situation in late 2012? Nokia switched to Windows, has let go of QT - but Jolla's Sailfish OS demo last week looked extremely cool! And Mer, Sailfish as well as Intel's/Samsung's Tizen all use QT. – raju-bitter Nov 29 '12 at 21:59
  • If you can wait a little, go HTML5. Qt goes down, but its hard to break the web... – Zimmermann Feb 01 '13 at 18:12