You don’t have to be a genius to realize that the iPhone owes a lot of its success to the app store. iPhone applications have enhanced iPhone’s capability and usefulness beyond anything Apple dreamed of. It seems other companies have been closely watching and are ready to copy a strategy that has worked so well for Apple. Intel is one of those companies. As you know, the netbook market is exploding and many people around the world are starting to adopt these devices. While the market is growing, Intel can provide further momentum for ATOM-based netbooks by letting developers create useful programs for netbook owners around the globe.

Intel Developer Program currently supports Windows and Mobin platforms, but if you wait a while, you’ll get Java and Adobe Air support through this program as well. That means you can create killer apps for netbooks easily with this platform in the near future. Here is how Intel described this platform:

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.

The details are still very sketchy about how this program will work. But it’d be exciting if it’s half as successful as the one Apple implemented for the iPhone. Netbooks are here to stay, and by using the power of the community behind netbooks, the platform can become more powerful for all of us. Let’s hope Intel and other companies that are developing their own App programs go about implementing them the right way.