apps on laptops

red_devil

Are these apps you download available on laptops or only on smartphones and tablets?

Lucero_2

Depends. Windows 8 now has an "App Store", which also works with Windows 8 phone. Apple have a store too which in some cases can mirror the MAC and the iPhone / iPad although more often than not, an app on the MAC would have to be repurchased for the iphone or ipad and vice versa.

Google has Android for it's phones and although they do have a desktop OS in the offing, the play store serves Apps for just Android phones

red_devil

how do you get windows 8 do you have to buy a new laptop?

macman

No, you can buy an upgrade (and for £14.99, if you qualify):
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8

-TangleFoot-

The apps available on Android bear very little relation to those on Windows, Mac OS or even iOS. Some may share the same names and do the same things but they are not generally interchangeable.

It's a question of architecture, you see.

googler

red_devil wrote: »

Are these apps you download available on laptops or only on smartphones and tablets?

In some cases, yes.

Easiest way to find them is to pick one that you're interested in, 'appname', determine the operating system on your PC ('opsys'), and search for

"appname opsys download" with google or similar....

But as previous poster said, they won't necessarily work exactly the same way as they do on the tablet. Some games which I use on a tablet work through a web browser on PC or laptop, and don't need to be downloaded at all.

-TangleFoot-

googler wrote: »

...they won't necessarily work exactly the same way as they do on the tablet.

Good example of a just such an app: VLC.

23n1th wrote: »

Bluestacks will let you run Android apps on windows.

Hmm...

neilwoods

If you use google chrome, you can download apps to use via the browser.

Again not the same as tablet, but a compromise

-TangleFoot-

neilwoods wrote: »

If you use google chrome, you can download apps to use via the browser.

Note: the vast majority of these will be 'web' apps - often little more than pretty bookmarks.

Angry Birds, anyone?

neilwoods

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Note: the vast majority of these will be 'web' apps - often little more than pretty bookmarks.

Angry Birds, anyone?

A lot of them are stand alone apps, so can be used offline, was aimed at the very successful chromebooks.