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Does anyone want to run Android mobile apps on a laptop? I never once ran an iOS app on macOS as the UI/UX makes no sense even though it is possible.
by sumuyuda 2y ago
Does anyone want to run Android mobile apps on a laptop?
I never once ran an iOS app on macOS as the UI/UX makes no sense even though it is possible.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoMakes no sense to me too but there is a vocal minority, as demonstrated when Microsoft removed android app support from windows 11, that use them. It's hard to estimate how many dozens of them there are but I guess it got to be in single digit.
- knifie_spoonie 2y agoI'm one of those people :) My use case is running Android apps on my Surface Pro instead of having to buy a separate tablet. It works great for my purposes.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoBut why ? What app is better on Android than on windows? I really struggle to see the benefit, android app seem subpar in every way.
- freefaler 2y ago- some apps don't have website/desktop versions - some app testing is better done on the desktop where you can share/mark screenshots but it's not a huge market for sure...
- lern_too_spel 2y agoIt makes a lot of sense if the laptop has a touchscreen. It replaces tablets entirely.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoI use Chrome OS and I use exactly three Android apps: VLC, Deezer and Tailscale. A video player is something I literally just watch, a music player is the sort of thing I'm happy to have in a phone-sized window, and a VPN client is of course not the sort of thing I interact with much at all.