Windows 10 Creators Update Privacy Invasion & Etc

[HiFlyer 9,363]

2 hours ago, Wobbie said:

So, the Windows Store running/selling reworked Android apps to get them collecting Android data?

This comment cannot be serious?

You would have to tell me if that comment is serious, since it's not one that I made. It's one you reworked in order to claim incredulity.

Perhaps we should simplify: If your product (Windows phone) is struggling due to lack of apps, and doesn't have the sales numbers to entice developers to produce apps for your products (or even port them) then one way to make your product more enticing is to allow said games/apps to run, even if with a bit of difficulty on in your ecosystem.

This might get your devices into more hands (And while its is in those hands people are also being exposed to your own software like Cortana, edge and etc)

There is also the alternate track of making your software and data collection (if any) available on other devices.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/12/5404098/microsoft-considering-android-apps-on-windows

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8511439/microsoft-windows-10-android-ios-apps-bridges

[Wobbie 938]

Ok, those links to www.theverge.com goes back to 2014.

You MUST use an emulator to run Android apps on a PC! (BlueStacks & Nox come to mind) So, Windows are not selling Android apps as yet!

Running an Android emulator on a PC is pretty much a 'closed' or sandbox program, where no info is transferred to the PC. It all runs in a 'box', as it were.

It should be common knowledge by now that Android is basically Linux based. Hence an emulator needed for a PC!

[HiFlyer 9,363]

31 minutes ago, Wobbie said:

You MUST use an emulator to run Android apps on a PC! (BlueStacks & Nox come to mind) So, Windows are not selling Android apps as yet!

Seems you are right. Project Astoria, which is what it was called last time I looked, seems to have died sometime in 2016 not for lack of trying, but apparently for legal reasons. 

[Wobbie 938]

On the Etc side, I'm running an emulator with free movie apps, giving the latest movies & series. All free, better & newer stuff than Netflix.

But that's another story...