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Windows had something like this (Windows Subsystem for Android) which worked really well until Microsoft went and killed it.
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Yeah, Microsoft tried 'both ways' to expand their quite small Windows Phone applications catalogue. And while Project Astoria [1] aimed at bringing Android apps, Project Islandwood was about easing porting of iOS applications [2]. Then MS decided that Windows Phone platform has no future.

[1] - https://www.windowslatest.com/2016/02/26/project-astoria-por...

[2] - https://www.windowslatest.com/2016/02/09/project-islandwood-...

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WSA was (or is, since still works unofficially) running Android in VM underneath.
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BlueStacks has worked really well for me.
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It is based on VM, so it is a lot slower.

You can't even run Instagram on a low-end laptop.

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isn't BlueStacks full of chinese ads nowadays?
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Unfortunately. But there really isn't anything out there as reliable as it.
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I wouldn't know, I block all Chinese IPs at my router.
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