Android apps on your desktop

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Huh? How is this even related to on an OS level? Are you saying that because Win8 supports ARM procs?

I say that mostly because apps on the desktop should be the PC model, not exiting the desktop in order to to access apps a la Metro. Then there's the thousands of apps already in existence this opens up to PC users.
 

jpiniero

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I'm not sure how this is any different from using the Android emulator that Google provides.
 

manko

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I'm not sure how this is any different from using the Android emulator that Google provides.

Just gave it a spin and it runs apps much faster. It feels like near native speed, while the official Google emulator is much slower.
 

sm625

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I fooled around with it for a bit last night. Man this thing makes the problems with my ipoop apps crashing seem mild in comparison.

I started off with tiny bee. Even on a i5-750 at 3.6GHz, I was noticing many dropped frames and very "unsmooth" play. And almost 50% cpu usage. That is really sad for a game could easily be ported to a SNES.

I was playing ceramic destroyer when the sound just went away. I could not get it back. But later on when playing a tower defense game, the sound just came back on its own.

The tom cat app would repeatedly crash on open. I tried like 10 times and could only laugh, since this is right on the front page list of recommended apps.

The OS is really painfully and inexplicably slow in every way. It emulates an SDCard on my SSD, so it should load stuff very fast... or so you'd think. But every app takes a minimum of 8 seconds to load. There is no excuse for this given the hardware I'm running.

Another strange thing that kept happening is that apps would be redownloaded every time I clicked on them. I must have downloaded the same 20MB file 5 times before that quit happening. Stuff like that really irritates me. It makes me wonder, does this happen on an actual android phone... apps being redownloaded for no good reason, other than to feed the big telecoms? And another even more important question: would you know it if it was happening?
 
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