That article points to a suite of other potential benefits from bringing the mobile lifestyle online: using the PC’s graphics card for better gameplay, sending and receiving SMS messages from a PC, and bringing the use of addictive apps off your cell phone data network, thereby reducing your bill. When BlueStacks first launched in beta, it racked up a million downloads inside of 10 days, with 12 million apps being run collectively, as TechCrunch pointed out last April. But what’s clear is that there’s consumer demand even now, in these days before the Great Mobile-Desktop Merge. It’s not immediately clear what percentage of that figure includes preloads (many of which may, after all, lay fallow on some devices for lack of interest). 150 million computers already have BlueStacks’s App Player on them, claims CEO Rosen Sharma. It follows, then, that we may want our mobile apps on our less-than-mobile computers someday soon. BlueStacks is a well-known emulator that brings that latest version of Android to your PC, allowing you to play the latest mobile games and use popular apps. Touchscreen desktop and laptop computers can’t be too far off from becoming mainstream, some argue.
As Slate’s Farhad Manjoo and many others have noticed, mobile computing is so embedding itself in our lives that we are beginning to demand its accoutrements in our desktop products. What BlueStacks does cuts to the heart of a larger trend in technology: the converging of desktop and mobile platforms.
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