We’re not really sure about the fate of Windows Phone but Microsoft seems to be not giving up on its very own mobile platform anytime soon. Five years into the mobile app arena, Microsoft has only delivered less than 200,000 Windows Phone apps. The number is very small compared to the millions ready for download from both the Google Play Store and the App Store. It may be far (or never) before the Windows Phone Store reaches that kind of milestone but Redmond seems to be thinking now of alternative ways on how to make Windows Phone more attractive.
Nothing has been confirmed yet but the software giant is believed to be working on an Android app emulator. Obviously, this is a way to run Android apps on Windows Phone. This app emulation is also expected to be a special feature of the upcoming Windows Phone 10 platform.
Android apps on Windows. Why not? We’ve seen this happening but not yet anytime soon. There have been talks of Microsoft experimenting on apps that can run on Windows 10 and some sources say that they are actually not limited to a specific set of app and are even broad in scope according to Neowin. Most Android apps are said to be compatible with the emulator but with limitations just like the current BlackBerry 10 OS that can also run Android apps.
Could this be Microsoft’s solution to the market share problem? In the same vein, Microsoft is also believed to be working on a program that will allow Android devices to run Windows Phone apps. From Android devices to Windows Phones–that’s another possibility.
Microsoft has spent billions of dollars already to maintain the Windows Phone ecosystem according to a Wall Street Journal report. Sadly, market share is still far from what Android and Apple have accomplished.
VIA: DIGITAL TRENDS
SOURCE: Neowin
There is an emulator for Windows already called BlueStacks. It’s also free.
Yes bluestacks is to run on windows computers platform and not phones it would be an ideal solution to windows problems if they could which atm wont happen….
Outdated information, Windows Phone has over 300,000 apps.
It is not the quantity of apps that counts it is the QUALITY. If you are a boater, a flier, or anyone wanting nice moving maps for other that an automobile, Windows has exactly none. Ios has the most, Android the next. If you are into trivia and useless junk apps, go windows.
I’m sure Apple is good for niche and fart apps, it has thousands. WP has quality not quantity.
Yes Windows really understands the mobile market. Let’s see. Nokia -FAILED, pocket PC – FAILED. Hmm could this be why they are such a minor and irrelevant player? You figure it out. My Windows smart phone is basically a door stop compared to Droids or Apple devices. But you can keep fantasizing.
Apple products are perfectly suited to the lowest common denominator. People who don’t understand tech and are willing to pay top dollar based on marketing.
Won’t they get involved in a lawsuit with Google?
Please please please let Windows phones use android. Currently Window “smart” phones are the dumbest most useless pieces of plastic junk on the market. Microsoft has lost in the mobile OS market and needs to get real to be a player. Getting real means forgetting their own OS and their gross inability to understand the mobile marketplace, a fault that has been with them seemingly forever. Who remembers the pocket PC with CE? Whazzzzat you say? Fuggedaboutdit.