One thing this really points out to me is how no one really believes in anything. Bernie Sanders position today is markedly different from this 2011 position only because of current party affiliation
As someone who has primarily used Laravel for almost 10years, this makes me sad. Laravel being venture backed will put all sorts of pressure on the company and force the project to be modified in so many ways to justify the capital raised. From my knowledge, the company was churning along quite well. I wonder what the money raised will be used for.
You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go nowhere.
Calling this now. This is a likely candidate for the Google graveyard.
Windows 10 (v2004)
Solid state drive (SSD) with 10 GB of available storage space
IntelⓇ UHD Graphics 630 GPU or comparable
4 CPU physical cores (some games require an Intel CPU)
8 GB of RAM
Windows admin account
Hardware virtualization must be turned on"
But really, there's already a wealth of android emulators for Windows.
The purpose of this release, from Google's point of view, is to displace BlueStacks. For as long as I remember, BlueStacks would sell developers all sorts of ecosystem toxic services, like triggering the emulators to download Google Play games to boost download counts.
The automation in bulestack and sorts are pretty great for time saving and farming rewards in Android games. It helps to skip the grinding and let u play the interesting bit. Not sure if google supports that
ASW is actually pretty bad on Win11. I've bypassed and side loaded normal stuff but it doesn't have Google play services so most things fail to properly function. Other than that it runs like a dog on a machine with a 5800x, 64gb ram, 6750x GPU. it's not really ready for prime time.
Does Windows Subsystem allow you to log in with your Google account? That's a big thing here - not just Android compatibility, but the fact that it's part of Google Play Games, so I assume cloud-saved savegames and the like will be working here.
Really love WSA compared to other emulators. Fully integrated into OS - including notifications.
Was looking at some way to get good openstreetmaps app on windows tablet (pretty much all windows mapping apps sucks), and with WSA i can run good old osmand or organicmaps. Needs better way to install APKs, though. And proper settings interface with permissions management and etc.
Last I checked (early this week) you couldn't use WSfA officially with the play store, only a small store and it was useless for me. There were some hacked versions that supposedly worked with the play store but you had to install a .exe from a YouTube video which doesn't seem that safe.
What's sad is that this Android support on Windows Mobile was actually really good. I had a demo device with an experimental build and Android apps were only as sluggish as... well... Android. A Microsoft run by a CEO with more backbone wouldn't have caved and started selling Androids.
> A Microsoft run by a CEO with more backbone wouldn't have caved and started selling Androids
Maybe Microsoft shouldn't have filed an Amicus brief in aupport of API copyrightability (lower court Google v. Oracle) while implementing Androids APIs.
If the Supreme court had ruled the other way, the brief itself would have been Google's first exhibit for willful infringement. Granted, Microsoft filed adopted the opposite view in their Amicus on the appeal to SCOTUS
Are you saying that because Google wont be invested in this and trying to figure out how to make money off it, that will be what kills it in the end? Seems right.
What I’m saying is that the product landscape is already quite mature. The product adds nothing new or spectacular to the landscape. They will struggle with internal motivation to maintain an also-ran product.
What are the current products in this space? I am aware of Bluestacks, I used to use that a while ago. Have not kept up with competition, so this looks like a good starting point for me to get back into it.
I agree, as someone who uses emulators to play mobile games often I don’t see any compelling reason to migrate from my current setup to use this. I’d probably just lose some functionality like the ability to record macros
It looks like they work by patching the WSA installer to get root ?
There's a leap of trust needed, as we'd be putting our google credentials into it, but I guess that's par for the course for what is kind of a jailbreak.
While it's not necessarily a jailbreak (the OS itself isn't the one preventing you from messing with these files) it's very close to injecting Google Play into an Android ROM that doesn't come with it (like custom ROMs, or maybe Chinese import phones).
Google Play isn't just an app you install, you to give it quite a few system level permissions for it to work right. Without root access and a patched system image, Google Play simply can't work right.
Compare it to getting Apple's iPadOS store to work on macOS or iOS. You can't just extract an .ipa and install it like with other apps, you need to modify the surrounding system and drag over some support libraries or the entire thing won't even be able to start. Or try installing Windows 11's file explorer on Windows 10, you'll need the same level of messing about with dependencies and system integration.
One major difference between the unofficial method and the Google method is that there's an API Google uses for remote attestation (SafetyNet) that requires root access to sort-of bypass, but can't be bypassed entirely. If Google's package contains the code to certify the PCs running it, that'd make DRM compatibility possible without hacks upon hacks.
My mental image was closer to a system framework, like adding node.js with npm, assuming that it wouldn't come with the more security restricted parts (NFC access etc) either way.
Yeah it isn't straightforward and you put trust in the community sort of thing. I've forked a previous version of one of the repos that has a GitHub workflow to build it automatically and have gone through that to make sure it's clean. I can make suggestions as to a repo to use but mine is private since they get DMCA notices I believe.
If you go back in the commit history far enough you can find when the actions workflow files were deleted. I used that (and other repos found via search) to set up the auto builds on mine.
I found that just installing the APKs necessary for a Fire 10 HD works (services, frameworks, etc). You can't use the true Google Play Store but Aurora store seems fine. I only tested this on an ARM64 device so perhaps it falls flat on x64 systems.
BlueStacks has recently ramped up the number of ads. It seems like the management know their days are numbered and are seeking to maximise remaining revenues.
Whenever articles like these are published, I wonder who the Author thinks does the work of writing free articles on the Internet just for their pleasure. Content is expensive and is created by writers who must be paid.
To demand quality articles from the Internet, you must be willing to pay for them. Nobody exists just to write free passionate articles on the Internet and earn no money from them.
Plus, Mr. Dubakov knows damn well why people write those types of articles. In fact, he's published quite a few shallow search optimized articles on the same Medium blog he's using to complain about the practice and on the Fibery blog. He does it to publicize his startup, just like most of the others.
e.g.
10 Top Product Marketing Bullshit Things in 2022
Survival guide for an introverted CEO
10 worst interview questions
5 Biggest Problems in Software Development
Overcoming fear of public speaking in 8 easy & honest tips
This is not possible. You cannot fund your account with more than $30 per day unless you are have the highest verification and right now, the limit at those levels is just $60.
It will take you years to move $100k at $60 per day.
It's entirely possible for an attacker with 100 stolen identities to make 100 $30/day accounts and move $3,000/day. or $6,000/day if they've stolen the person's government ID. It'll take just over 2 weeks to move $100k at that rate.
