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Makes no sense to me too but there is a vocal minority, as demonstrated when Microsoft removed android app support from windows 11, that use them. It's hard to estimate how many dozens of them there are but I guess it got to be in single digit.

I'm one of those people :)

My use case is running Android apps on my Surface Pro instead of having to buy a separate tablet. It works great for my purposes.

But why ? What app is better on Android than on windows?

I really struggle to see the benefit, android app seem subpar in every way.

- some apps don't have website/desktop versions

- some app testing is better done on the desktop where you can share/mark screenshots

but it's not a huge market for sure...

I use Chrome OS and I use exactly three Android apps: VLC, Deezer and Tailscale.

A video player is something I literally just watch, a music player is the sort of thing I'm happy to have in a phone-sized window, and a VPN client is of course not the sort of thing I interact with much at all.

It makes a lot of sense if the laptop has a touchscreen. It replaces tablets entirely.