The company had originally released a beta version of their App Player for Windows back in March. The software allows users to run Android apps directly on their Windows PCs, and the newest version begins to extend that functionality to the Mac.
While the Windows version allows you to run any Android app without modification, the early Mac version seems to be limited to 15 initial apps that comes bundled with the download. The bundled apps include Air Control Lite, Alchemy, Basketball Shot, Drag Racing, Elastic World, Facebook, Glow Hockey, Guns’n'Glory, Paper Toss, Pulse, Robo Defense, Seesmic, Twitter, Whatsapp, and Zebra Paint.
Their support page claims that “in the very near future”, they plan on opening the Mac version up to over 400,000 Android apps:
The BlueStacks App Player for Mac OSX (alpha) supports both Lion and Snow Leopard. You can test drive a fixed set of curated apps for the first release (alpha-1). In the very near future, BlueStacks will let you select from over 400,000 Android apps to play on your Mac.
The alpha version is available as a free download from the BlueStacks website.
I’ll admit, that I too am perplexed by this. What “amazing” Android apps don’t already have an iOS counterpart?
Not the point. The point is that you’ll be able to run mobile apps on your desktop/laptop OS – something you cannot do with iOS apps. Whether it’s at all productive or useful is a whole another argument.
Bringing apps that require a touch screen to a PC with a keyboard and mouse. Genius.
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There are Google apps on the iPhone. As for the emulators…. jailbreak 
:D
Google apps for Android have many features that the iOS version don’t have… which is perhaps to be expected.
As for jailbreaking, in my opinion the security/privacy concerns outweighs the added functionality.
Great, enlarged phone apps. Just what I needed on my Mac.
No one says you “need” it, or that you have to download it. Some people might find it useful. Personally, I find it cool, in a nerdy sort of way 
:confused:
Why do I need to run Android apps on my Mac?
I feel like I’m missing something here.
I don’t really get this. Why would you want to run Android apps on a Mac? Doesn’t Mac already have a much better selection of quality apps than Android?
I’ll admit, that I too am perplexed by this. What “amazing” Android apps don’t already have an iOS counterpart?
I don’t really get this. Why would you want to run Android apps on a Mac? Doesn’t Mac already have a much better selection of quality apps than Android?
Cross platform gaming, and access to Android only apps for your Mac. There are many apps for android I just wish I had on my Mac, and I have an Android phone, an iPhone, an iPad, a Mac and a PC.
TBH I almost only use my Mac/iPad/Android Phone, and next to never use my iPhone and my PC.
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