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I think that WSL is useful and used by many. WSA, not so sure. Who is using it? They very likely have telemetry and thus usage.
by stephc_int13 3y ago
I think that WSL is useful and used by many.
WSA, not so sure. Who is using it? They very likely have telemetry and thus usage.
- moolcool 3y ago> enables your Windows 11 device to run Android applications that are available in the Amazon Appstore This might be the crux of it. Google probably will never port the Play store to Windows, MS doesn't want to maintain their own Android app store, and Amazon is a competitor with a pretty uncompelling app store to boot.
- izacus 3y agoGoogle actually has ported Play Store to Windows, just for games though: https://play.google.com/googleplaygames https://play.google.com/googleplaygames
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- andix 3y agoI'm using it from time to time. A lot of consumer equipment nowadays can only be operated with Android and iOS apps. For all those things I need WSA the Apps are off course not available in the official Amazon App Store, so i had to manually download them from f-droid and side load them with ADB. I can see why WSA is not such an often used subsystem.
- andix 3y agoEdit: It was not f-droid, they don't provide APKs for copyright protected apps. It was shady mirroring websites that re-upload APKs from the Google Play Store. (downloading and installing from those sites is legal where I live).
- alkonaut 3y ago> Who is using it? Android app developers on Windows is a disappointed group on Twitter at least
- Spunkie 3y agoMy laptop has a 4g module so I use WSA to run my mobile providers app. So I can monitor usage and buy more packages when I run out of data.