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Microsoft Announces App Mirroring To Let You Use Any Android App On Windows 10
At its Surface launch event, Microsoft announced a new feature for Windows 10 that will let Android users use any app on their device on a Windows 10 desktop. Microsoft is referring to the feature as app mirroring, and it appears to only be available for Android users. "It looks to be a significant step in helping bridge Windows 10 and the mobile ecosystem after the demise of Windows Phone," reports The Verge. From the report: We didn't see an extensive demo onstage, but we did get a look at a user exchanging Snapchat messages with a friend on a Surface device using the app mirroring feature. Microsoft says the feature will be available in the new Windows 10 October update.
It seems an awful lot like an Android version of BlackBerry Blend (for BB10), just offering messaging and file access. It seems kinda redundant since my google drive already has all my photos and files, plus the sms in browser feature that's recently been added.
The reason why, M$ want to datamine the Android apps when you use them and that means datamining everything you do with that app, especially when you use that up on an Android device and then use it on PC with that data from the Android device, so no positives, just eww, don't do it, simply do not do it.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Not enough for me to let Windows 10 near ANY computer I own.
No thank you.
If I run Android apps on Windows 10, will it be Google or Microsoft that's stealing my data?