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On the other hand metro does not feel right on a big screen anyway, maybe it fits well?
Some years later everyone will realize that desktops are not phones and are meant to utilize more available screen space. Then everyone will come up with "revolutionary" desktop interface ideas and we here at HN will call it out that we already had these back in 90s. I am waiting for that time. Windows 10 is "phony" already and becoming more like it's built for people with low vision. I hate it's UI. I hope bringing…
That said, I assume it will be possible to run Android apps in their own windows. No need to force the entire OS into some weird Android mode. It'll likely work the same way WSL does.
The screenshot at the top of TFA specifically shows this.
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OTOH, now that I can sell my Android apps on the Microsoft store, why would I even bother to make a Windows-specific port? Blackberry tried it with Blackberry 10 and failed. IBM failed the same way with OS/2. If you make your OS compatible with a foreign platform, there is less incentive to write original software for it and, therefore, there is less reason to get your platform instead of the one you are compatible w…
As a user though, why would I get an operating system / device that can only run Android software when I can get a device that can run both Android and Windows software? And as an Android dev, I now have an incentive to optimize for Microsoft device form factors, which is a lot easier to do and maintain than making a whole port And I don't see that there are too many developers who are now writing Windows desktop app…
That's the point. Over time, the volume of Windows-specific software should decrease because when you write for Android, you effectively target both platforms.
> who will suddenly decide to rewrite for Android.
That will be the case for a while, until there are Android devices with capabilities similar to a Windows computer. Apple neatly solved that with the M1-based iPads, as they are effectively more powerful than most Windows devices.
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Ah, perhaps. I’m excited to see that Apple is unifying their hardware architectures across their various form factors of computing devices. That’ll be interesting in the future.
Microsoft had unified their software architecture across various form factors. So xbox, (phones?), tablets, laptops, desktops, servers ran the same Windows essentially with different shells. Windows also supports multiple hardware architectures - we just need the external ecosystem to thrive as well. We see it in graphics with nvidia and amd but compute/cpu progress limped through most of 2012-2018?.
Windows for ARM is still in preview, I believe.
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Microsoft had unified their software architecture across various form factors. So xbox, (phones?), tablets, laptops, desktops, servers ran the same Windows essentially with different shells. Windows also supports multiple hardware architectures - we just need the external ecosystem to thrive as well. We see it in graphics with nvidia and amd but compute/cpu progress limped through most of 2012-2018?.
Software architecture is great, but unified hardware architecture is where it is at. Windows for ARM is still in preview, I believe.
Surface Pro X running on ARM was released to public 2 years ago. We had x86onARM translation since 2018 I believe.
To be honest I have no idea why someone would use Android apps on Windows? Popular apps can be used via the web-browser or even have a separat desktop app (e.g., whatsapp, facebook, youtube, ...). That is similar with games. Edit: apps which require sensors, such as gps, gyro, etc. wouldn't work anyway...
What? My windows laptop has all the sensors, gps, gyro, etc that you would need.
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What is number of tablets? The total number of shipped Tablet? Why would it matter if those tablet are not in use? Which is what the stats from Stats-counter are showing.
Market share is how much money you make. So for example if apple sells 1M ipads for $500 and android tablets cost $50, at 45.57% it would mean there are 9M android tablets sold. Which makes the proportions more like 11% ipad / 89% android.
how 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
Android still uses bytecode for a lot of apps. Unless you're using Android NDK, which does have native code and requires different releases for different processors, ARM and x86 isn't really relevant. Intel even made an attempt into the smartphone CPU market with the Asus ZenFone 4 back in 2014 with an Intel Atom x86 processor running Android. Modern Pixelbooks (and other x86 Chromebooks) run Android apps fine too, a…
So, now macOS will run iOS apps; Windows will run Android apps. What's the Linux's answer?