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This is neat but I'm struggling to think of a case where this would be useful.

by tootie 5y ago

neogodless 5y ago
Personally, depending on how it translates... Instagram where I can upload photos on the desktop and tweak them. Could use my banking app with Windows Hello for authentication. In other words, the cases where the Android App has more features than the web site version.
enlyth 5y ago
BlueStacks claims to have more than 500 million users, I know a few friends who use it to play mobile only games on their PC for example. If android emulation was so useless on Windows, it wouldn't be so popular
- read_if_gay_ 5y ago
  > BlueStacks claims to have more than 500 million users That would be twice the playerbase of Candy Crush for a fairly niche software.
wvenable 5y ago
You're struggling to think of a case where an OS can run applications written for another OS would be useful?
- tootie 5y ago
  I think the majority of mobile apps are very coupled to the mobile ecosystem. Or they exist to coverup the poor mobile web experience. I can use social media and messaging from any desktop web browser already. Anything geared around mobility or photography won't be very useful on a desktop. And at least a few apps just have "mobile only" as their edgy marketing strategy. I get why this is potentially useful but I can't think a single app I'd actually use this way.
  - wtetzner 5y ago
    A big part of the reason Windows Phone failed was a lack of a good app ecosystem. Maybe they’re working their way toward a new Windows Phone that is compatible with Android apps?
    - toast0 5y ago
      Microsoft had an Android compat suite and an iOS compat suite in some of the Windows Mobile 10 betas. They decided not to ship either one, although I don't think I ever saw an official reason. The app ecosystem was a small part of the failure of Windows Mobile, IMHO. A larger issue was that they abandoned the low end in WM10, and that's where they were doing well in WP7 and 8. That each major version of the OS also had a new app framework was a lot of work for app developers, too. And blocking 3rd party browsers (mostly) and then making WM10 use Edge which was somehow worse than Mobile IE, when a browser is key on a platform without a lot of native apps didn't help.
    - anoncake 5y ago
      Good luck passing "Safety"Net with a Windows Phone.
bitL 5y ago
You can get the free Microsoft Office from Android running on Windows 11 "natively"...
- layer8 5y ago
  It’s only free for screen sizes up to 10", isn’t it?

This is neat but I'm struggling to think of a case where this would be useful.

by tootie 5y ago

This is neat but I'm struggling to think of a case where this would be useful.

Personally, depending on how it translates... Instagram where I can upload photos on the desktop and tweak them. Could use my banking app with Windows Hello for authentication. In other words, the cases where the Android App has more features than the web site version.

enlyth 5y ago

BlueStacks claims to have more than 500 million users, I know a few friends who use it to play mobile only games on their PC for example. If android emulation was so useless on Windows, it wouldn't be so popular

read_if_gay_ 5y ago
> BlueStacks claims to have more than 500 million users That would be twice the playerbase of Candy Crush for a fairly niche software.

wvenable 5y ago

You're struggling to think of a case where an OS can run applications written for another OS would be useful?

tootie 5y ago
I think the majority of mobile apps are very coupled to the mobile ecosystem. Or they exist to coverup the poor mobile web experience. I can use social media and messaging from any desktop web browser already. Anything geared around mobility or photography won't be very useful on a desktop. And at least a few apps just have "mobile only" as their edgy marketing strategy. I get why this is potentially useful but I can't think a single app I'd actually use this way.
- wtetzner 5y ago
  A big part of the reason Windows Phone failed was a lack of a good app ecosystem. Maybe they’re working their way toward a new Windows Phone that is compatible with Android apps?
  - toast0 5y ago
    Microsoft had an Android compat suite and an iOS compat suite in some of the Windows Mobile 10 betas. They decided not to ship either one, although I don't think I ever saw an official reason. The app ecosystem was a small part of the failure of Windows Mobile, IMHO. A larger issue was that they abandoned the low end in WM10, and that's where they were doing well in WP7 and 8. That each major version of the OS also had a new app framework was a lot of work for app developers, too. And blocking 3rd party browsers (mostly) and then making WM10 use Edge which was somehow worse than Mobile IE, when a browser is key on a platform without a lot of native apps didn't help.
  - anoncake 5y ago
    Good luck passing "Safety"Net with a Windows Phone.

bitL 5y ago

You can get the free Microsoft Office from Android running on Windows 11 "natively"...

layer8 5y ago
It’s only free for screen sizes up to 10", isn’t it?