Asus has revealed a new partnership at Computex today to make its computers more Android-friendly.
By teaming with BlueStacks, which makes an "app player" for running Google's Android apps on Microsoft's Windows, the company will make Android apps available on 30 million Windows computers around the world.
"Asus has always been an innovator, and this is a big move for the space," BlueStacks' Chief Executive Officer Rosen Sharma wrote in an Email. "Thirty million computers running mobile apps is a lot, but it's just the beginning."
Asus will include BlueStacks in its asus@vibe entertainment platform, which currently ships on all Asus computers.
It will include six months of free access to hundreds of thousands of Android apps, after which customers must pay a subscription fee to continue unfettered app access.
If they don't pay, BlueStacks will still work but with far fewer apps available - about 50 or so of the top apps.
Legacy Asus computers already in the marketplace will get BlueStacks on 4th June 2012, as soon as the app player is available in asus@vibe.
The first Asus computers to ship with BlueStacks integrated are expected to be running Windows 7, shipping in September, and Windows 8, when it becomes available sometime during the third quarter this year.
Source: C|net
Interesting post but I do not see the point of running Android apps on a Windows PC - not even for games: there are plenty of games available for PC.
The other way around would be much more interesting:
I wish so much to be able to use my PC apps on my Android tablet.
Posted by: Eric | 04 June 2012 at 09:10