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Re:Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 by dharma1 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:38PM (#27624822)
Yeah I don’t think it’s really taken off. The iOS apps that I would actually like to use on my M1 Mac have just opted out - not sure why.

For MS I think this could be a modest low risk win, even if it doesn’t massively take off. It gets them at least some tablet apps, and some popular social apps for desktop, without having to incentive developers to port them.

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Re:Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 by collaborative on Thursday June 24, 2021 @08:46PM (#27625828)
Initially all ios apps were automatically included. But the latest version of xcode requires building with macOS as a destination which in my experience just doesn't compile. And I don't have the time to find out why (neither does my dev community). So for example, my app was available on m1 for a while, and as soon as I updated from new xcode, got opted out
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