Did you think the same thing when Windows was ported to Mac first time? If anything, the fact that a Mac can run all other OS's but the others can't necessarily run OSX or iOS, makes a Mac look MORE compelling, not less.
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Did you think the same thing when Windows was ported to Mac first time? If anything, the fact that a Mac can run all other OS's but the others can't necessarily run OSX or iOS, makes a Mac look MORE compelling, not less.
Nerds will like this. But otherwise, who's going to care? I can't think of any mobile app I want to run on my desktop. I'd much rather have one of these for my new iPad mini:
http://twelvesouth.com/products/hoverbar/
http://twelvesouth.com/products/hoverbar/
The Android emulator is slow for a long list of reasons. It not that it is crappy but there are a long list of reasons.
1. You are emulating the ARM cpu which just does not work well on a x86 chip.
2. You have a lot of extra dev tools running in that emulator so it is going to be debugger full time. This means a lot of extra logging is being run and I can see a lot of the memory infomtion from the running. Top it off it is running on the ARM side. Connect physical device to the computer and run those same tools. It slows down a lot and there can be some rather annoying lag on something.
why would anyone, ANYONE run android apps on mac?silly, dont see any target group...
One huge one that the sells guys where I work are loving about blueStacks is it makes it a lot easier to show off the mobile apps to customers with out having carry extra stuff with them. The is also handing for support because now they can jump onto bluestacks to help solve problems real quickly.
No really. I can already see an market it for this. As address above for sells guys for company that have mobile apps as some of their things in the product line up it is handy. Support as well.
Also MS can use it big time as guess what you can use bluestacks to now get easy access to all the android apps out there for their devices as well. (instant large app store)
Why would I want to run stretched out Android phone apps on my Mac?
The apps for mac run better, look better and have a larger selection, this seems trivial.
The apps for mac run better, look better and have a larger selection, this seems trivial.
Toys for nerds. Making mobile apps work on a Mac is a ridiculously round-about way of adding cross-compatibility. The developers should just make different versions of the app.
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It's funny how often the pros are wrong about investing. If I had followed the suggestions, I would have lost money in the stock market, and if I had followed the S&P500, I wouldn't have beaten the S&P500. Holding oil through the Arab Spring FTW!
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It hurts Mac app development. You know how the WINE devs claim that WINE doesn't hurt Linux/Mac development? Well, they're wrong. I've run into many apps where the "Mac" or "Linux" version is really some junky or at least sub-par WINE wrapper with the Windows version inside. I tried to download ChemSketch, and it told me to either use WINE or virtualize a WinXP machine to run it. I had to do it in XP because WINE doesn't fully support it.
This is also the reason why FAT is the standard (Windows is too retarded to read HFS) and why Microsoft calls the fact that Windows can't read very many file formats in general a Mac disadvantage.
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I'd just not use What's App. It's clearly dumb.
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It's funny how often the pros are wrong about investing. If I had followed the suggestions, I would have lost money in the stock market, and if I had followed the S&P500, I wouldn't have beaten the S&P500. Holding oil through the Arab Spring FTW!
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It hurts Mac app development. You know how the WINE devs claim that WINE doesn't hurt Linux/Mac development? Well, they're wrong. I've run into many apps where the "Mac" or "Linux" version is really some junky or at least sub-par WINE wrapper with the Windows version inside. I tried to download ChemSketch, and it told me to either use WINE or virtualize a WinXP machine to run it. I had to do it in XP because WINE doesn't fully support it.
This is also the reason why FAT is the standard (Windows is too retarded to read HFS) and why Microsoft calls the fact that Windows can't read very many file formats in general a Mac disadvantage.
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I'd just not use What's App. It's clearly dumb.
They would be no more crappy than the iOS ones...dont start thinking for 1 second that iOS apps are any more "pro" than Android apps
Do you realize He's talking about virtualization? Not necessarily the Apps themselves? Although a lot of android apps do suck, so do a lot of iOS apps. More is not better.
When he says "some of the crappiest apps" it doesn't seem he's talking about the emulator
Well, some of the Android Apps could be the crappiest around, So could some of the iOS Apps. Whatever floats your boat. Still the main reason for bad performance would be running Apps in a virtual environment. Do you disagree?
Yes, but you can't run IOS apps on a computer either.
I'd love this just for flip board.... and equivalent doesn't mean the same app. IOS has more apps without doubt, but they're policed by Apple. There are tons of apps on Android that Apple would never allow in the app store.
Windows people might have the best experience since all that new hardware is touch enabled. I think the only vexing issue with this is that touch apps and a mouse don't usually make for good friends.
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I forgot... Android has native support for mouse and keyboard... while I doubt a lot of apps bother to build that support in, some of them do. IOS does not. You can use a keyboard with IOS, but if you have, you see where outside of the text and space keys, nothing else is supported.
Niiiiice!!Btw, i'm getting an error (check network connectivity) when i try to install apps with bluestack, anyone has this issue?
Uh ? Then they aren't applications. iOS apps run on computers that use iOS as an operating system obviously.
I think you meant Macs/PCs here.
There's this to compile iOS app for the Mac: http://chameleonproject.org.
Haven't tried it for my current app since it says it doesn't support UITabBar and UISwitch, which I would need. And it mimics the 3.2 API and my apps is built for iOS and up. In my case, the iPad version of my universal app would be very useful on the Mac.
Good effort though... I just wished someone would pick up the ball and make a productized version of iOS 6. Might be legal issues, though.
Haven't tried it for my current app since it says it doesn't support UITabBar and UISwitch, which I would need. And it mimics the 3.2 API and my apps is built for iOS and up. In my case, the iPad version of my universal app would be very useful on the Mac.
Good effort though... I just wished someone would pick up the ball and make a productized version of iOS 6. Might be legal issues, though.
If these Apps weren't easily ported to OSX and Linux using winelibs, they may not have been ported at all...
Yes, but that doesn't help Mac development at all. That just makes Windows development the standard for all OSs to use with WINE. And some things would be ported to a native Mac version if there wasn't WINE.
I´d take that conversion any day. A 458 with a VW W16 engine. That thing would fly and have 4wd.
Guess that answers your question.
If the developer went the WINE route to begin with, he wouldn't have made a native port at all.
And yes, it does help Mac development. With WINE, we have more software compatibility for Macs, which means more consumers being able to transition to the platform, which grows its market share and makes it more interesting to target as a development platform.
Some of you asked why would Google have to start a shell company. Well if Google did it, then people would say, "Ya, they basically just finally the sdk some justice" or "Of course they can do it, they wrote the freaking software for Android". But if they released it as a third party, it would make it seem that their software is so open sourced that even a third-party can create a emulator for it on both platform.
Ejem, their software is so open sourced that even a third-party can create a emulator for it on both platforms
Why they have to use a shell company?
Your reasoning for your unjustified paranoia makes no sense. If Google wanted to release a App Player for Mac or Windows or Linux, they would as Google. They wouldn't "start a shell company" to prove "Android is open source". We can check the code and see it is open source, and an App player doesn't help prove it anyway.
