Surface 3 + Android Apps?

While the ability to run Windows desktop applications is a huge win for Surface 3, it doesn’t help at all with the mobile app gap. But what if you could run Android apps on Surface 3? That might put Surface 3 over the top.

As you may know, there are various options for running Android apps on Windows, and these solutions would seem to make particular sense on touch-first devices like Surface 3. The one I’m most familiar with is called BlueStacks, an Android emulator that lets you run Android apps and games on Windows. But in just a bit of testing on Surface 3, I’m reminded that while BlueStacks “works,” it’s not ideal. That is, it doesn’t work very well.

The problems are all technological, I guess. Most appear to be limitations of BlueStacks, not Surface 3.

As an Android emulator, BlueStacks loads like a virtual machine, and while you can run it full-screen or in a window, what you can’t do is run Android apps individually, on the Windows desktop. This is a capability of virtualization solutions such as Parallels on the Mac—which is how I run Windows inside OS X on my MacBook Air—and would make an Android solution like this more seamless on Windows.

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