Interesting. If it works well it might be enough to make me buy a Surface.
Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11
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#212Is there something similar on Linux? Would make me ditch the Apple ecosystem once and for all for Linux and Android ..
Anbox ( https://anbox.io/ ) does seem to do this. I couldn't try this because I couldn't get it to run on my machine a few years back
The whole problem is that Anbox is distributed as Snaps which is disliked by folks from many non Ubuntu-like Linux distributions. It would be interesting if there was a docker image with Anbox pre-installed that allowed playing with Android apps with zero configuration and setup.
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#213Why though? What's the point? I absolutely don't want to run the crapware on my phone on a real computer.
None is forcing you to do that. It's a feature that if you want to use it, you'll can from W11 onward.
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#214what about bringing office to linux?
wine? no? then how about Libre office? or even the olddy but goldy VM running Win(whatever version) for your Windows only needs? Plenty of choices
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh this makes more sense: JVM apps run in Windows with some simple JVM container. Intel Bridge Technology is only needed for the apps that have compiled native code.
> some simple JVM container no, there's a new NT subsystem to support this: Windows Subsystem for Android, and as you could guess from the name, it is somewhat related to WSL. the NT kernel was always designed to accommodate multiple subsystems running at once. Until WSL, there was only ever the Windows subsystem itself. soon there will be a third subsystem one can install. this is neat, to me.
Hmm, but WSL2 just runs a VM instead, right? Given that I'd have expected WSA to be a container on the WSL VM, running something similar to Anbox.
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#216Is it just me or does anyone else think this is Microsoft's first step to create it's own Android fork eventually? I have been thinking what's really keeping the "new" Microsoft outside the smartphone game? Google creating a desktop OS market share is not really on the horizon. But if Microsoft takes the right steps it might venture out to smartphones again, and gain market share this time. The HN crowd may not be th…
> Google creating a desktop OS market share is not really on the horizon.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-worlds-second-mo...
>> For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft's Windows in a commanding lead at number one and Apple's macOS in distant second place. But in 2020, Chrome OS became the second-most popular OS, and Apple fell to third.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chromebook-units-surge-275-in-...
>> Chromebook units surge 275% in Q1
Oh, ok.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah? Tiktok's app is way better than the website. Snapchat etc doesn't even have a usable website.
I believe the question is why having the app on a Windows machine if the phone is usually nearby.
Instagram is intentionally annoying to use on browsers. Business users who have all their media in a folder and share an account between staff might welcome this. Post schedulers exist but are unreliable and annoying for adhoc posts.
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#218how can windows run android apps but linux which is base of android itself cannot do that ? what happened to arm and x86 differences? if rosetta stone thing is being done, why can't linux do that even natively on arm? edit: base=kernel
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#219If anything, Amazon knows this will really incentivize updating your Android app on the Amazon App Store, or bringing it there if you haven't. And that's good for us because, should the Amazon App Store become more viable for manufacturers, Google might find themselves increasingly losing control of Android, and increasingly forced to make the Play Store more competitive.
Amazon's App store as it stands now is a bit of a ghost town. If apps are on there at all they're often outdated versions. I assume Google won't agree to cooperate with Microsoft and let the Play Store be supported. Anti-trust should help with that kind of monopolistic play but lol.
It's always been a ghost town for a large amount of popular apps. Last I checked, they didn't even have alternate browsers.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are few categories of apps this targets. “Clubhouse for Android” category: avant- grade apps that launch first on Android or define android platform. Nonexistent. “Median phone user ecosystem:” The TikTok Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, China app ecosystem and India app ecosystem. The experience of all these is bad on Windows browsers or unavailable. ”Games”: hard to say, because Windows is a…
> ”Games”: hard to say, because Windows is a better platform for games than Android by 10x. Note that there are quite a few commercial "Android on PC" emulators already, e.g. https://www.memuplay.com/ , https://www.bluestacks.com/ and https://www.bignox.com/ . In terms of scale, Bluestacks claim they have 50 million monthly active users which makes them pretty substantial! From https://www.bluestacks.com/promote-your…
I wish most win users were ok with android emulators because they are great. Performance is fantastic. But 99% of users refuse to take the extra step of first installing an "app to run an app". Windows could have as easily integrated one of these emulators into the OS which would have allowed for using Google services (unsure about legality of this) but they have chosen to compete with Google which isn't a bad thing since it improves competition