Apple iPhone on Intel?
figure 1: a mockup of a device on Intel's Moorestown chip
The Apple iPhone is currently based off the ARM processor platform, but they are reportedly considering a switch to Intel in 2009. Some sites are expanding that news as justification for no 3rd party development, but I don't buy it. And why not? Because a web widget -- the simplest form of native 3rd party development -- can be written in processor-agnostic fashion. Indeed, most of them would.
The chip that they're reportedly considering, the Moorestown MID, would give the iPhone an unprecedented amount of computing power for a mobile device in its size class as the chip is designed for use in ultramobile PCs. Moorestown can also pair with chips for 3G, wi-fi, and wimax. Speaking to Jobs' earlier quote about horrible battery life, Moorestown can idle with 10% of the power than its predecessor chip Menlow, meaning drastically longer standby times. Of course, it could just indicate that Apple is coming out with a UMPC of their own, who can say? [picture credit]
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Oh, kewl... a faster more general CPU so we can run really great Web 2.0 apps? huh!? Why bother? How about they stop wasting time on stuff like this and open the freakin' SDK!?
Heh. Who knows, by 2009 we could have 3rd party apps. :p