They would need to rework their products to run on the ARM chips that have a different architecture.
Second, makers of mass-market appliances, used to mains electricity, have been slow to rejig their products to run on the low-voltage direct current (DC) produced by renewable energy sources and batteries.
The company already offers prototypes of bags and jackets with photosensitive panels woven in, designed to charge digital cameras and mobile phones, and a hotel in Las Vegas is using G24's products to run its electric window-blinds.
It focuses on the design, development and manufacture of fuel-efficient engines for light aircraft and is working on products to run on leaded fuel, unleaded fuel mixes, including ethanol, and even L.P.G.
The more that people used Microsoft's operating system (DOS and later Windows), the more that third-party developers built products to run on Windows, which attracted more users.
Cisco Systems, the world's leading maker of computer-networking equipment, said it would begin offering a dozen new Internet protocol telephone products to run on a network and provide voice, video and data services.
Incandescent or filament bulbs are one of the few products to run directly from the mains - but they throw away 95% of their energy as heat, turning only 5% into light.
Yahoo!, for example, uses NetApp products to run e-mail and web-hosting services.On November 29th, NetApp moved right on to EMC's home turf by announcing that its products are now compatible with IBM's database software and mainframe computers, which do much of the heavy lifting in corporate computing.
One potentially elegant structural solution that stops short of breaking the firm up would be to force it to publish the full specifications of the Windows "application program interfaces" (APIs), the codes that software firms who want their products to run on Windows must follow.
The reality for founders is that they have products to run, not political movements to launch.
