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[–] [email protected] 92 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm leaning more on nobody using it. Didn't help that they partnered with Amazon for it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

And it's also not publicly available for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could be because, iirc, Amazon is starting to move away from Android.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But third party app stores are so popular!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

If that's a dig at the recent Apple vs. EU, you've missed the point completely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I never even knew this was a thing until now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

And by default, it's only available on 11. What percentage if the user base has switched.

You can run WSA on Win10, there's a github for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Doesn’t help either, that most Android apps are designed for touch screens and most windows machines don’t have one.

Also, when I tried it it was somewhat slow.