{"id":51699,"date":"2012-06-04T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T06:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=51699"},"modified":"2012-06-04T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T07:02:55","slug":"windows-to-get-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/51699-windows-to-get-android-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows to get Android apps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asus wants to makes traditional computers more <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> friendly, and is partnering with developer BlueStacks to release an \u201cApp Player\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The App Player will allow Android applications to run on the <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> OS.<\/p>\n<p>The companies announced their partnership at the Computex expo in Taipei, where they revealed that BlueStacks will now be a part of the asus@vibe entertainment platform.<\/p>\n<p>Asus@vibe currently ships on all <a title=\"Asus\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363482-Asustek\">Asus<\/a> computers, and includes 6 months of free access to hundreds of thousands of Android applications. Once the initial 6 month period is over customers will have to pay a subscription fee to continue using all of the apps, however if they choose not to they will still be given access to the top 50 applications.<\/p>\n<p>Current Asus computers will be getting the BlueStacks update on 4 June.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/8301-2007_4-57445948-12\/asus-to-bring-android-to-windows-with-bluestacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Windows 8 set to steal the show\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/51651-windows-8-set-to-steal-the-show.html\">Windows 8 set to steal the show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Windows 8 upgrade special pricing revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/51585-windows-8-upgrade-special-pricing-revealed.html\">Windows 8 upgrade special pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Windows 8 preview now available\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/51533-windows-8-preview-now-available.html\">Windows 8 preview now available<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows users may be able to use Android applications thanks to Asus and BlueStacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":42213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,947,12241,12243,807],"class_list":["post-51699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-asus","tag-bluestacks","tag-computex-2012","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51701,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51699\/revisions\/51701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}