Throwing Shade at AppleĪll of this happens in the context of the spectacular, ongoing litigation between Apple and Epic Games around Apple's app store being the only way to get apps on an iPhone.Īpple has been pushing the narrative that if people are allowed to download apps or subscribe to services by other means, its platform would become a sink of horrifying malware-you know, like Android is. Naturally, it largely relies on the Google Play store for the app files. Bluestacks boots Android in a virtual machine on your Windows system and lets you drop in app files. The second main way is with an Android emulator called Bluestacks. Until your phone isn't close to the PC, at least. That way, you can 'run' any app from the Google Play store.
You aren't really running the apps on your PC, but you can use them as if they were PC apps. The Your Phone app, used with a Samsung Galaxy phone, lets you remote-control your phone's apps from your PC.
There are currently two major ways to run Android apps on a Windows PC. Because they're largely gray-market marketplaces, the software on them may be illegitimately posted and not monitored or maintained by the developers. APKMirror and similar sites basically rip app packages out of Google Play and repost them, often without permission. In the US, they're the shady back-alleys of the Android world. Other non-Google Play Android app stores exist. Here's what you get when you search for best-selling Android game Genshin Impact in Amazon's app store. Look at Microsoft itself for why: The official Windows app store has always had the entirety of the Windows 10 install-base to serve, and it isn't great. The best possible outcome of this is that the huge new audience of potential Windows users will revitalize the Amazon Appstore and lead app developers to put their products in there. But when something awesome comes to Android, it often doesn't come to the Amazon Appstore. Those specific apps aren't a big deal on Windows, which has its own apps or terrific browser-based versions of those services. The Fire HD 10 productivity bundle got absolutely slated as app after app wasn't available on the Amazon Appstore-Signal, Slack, Rome2Rio,, Google Sheets, what have you. I saw this when reviewing Amazon's most recent line of Fire tablets.
That makes Google's app store the default and often the only choice for most Android app developers. Although Android is an "open" platform (unlike iOS), nearly every Android phone outside China comes preloaded with Google Play. But Microsoft can't get around Google's absolute, crushing dominance of the Android app world in the US.
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