UPDATED 15:07 EDT / MAY 25 2011

BlueStacks Finally Makes Dollars and Sense; Android Apps on PCs

Bluestacks has been around for a couple of years now, but its founders Rosen Sharma, Suman Saraf and a couple other colleagues didn’t really know what to focus on. Not until Saraf’s daughter wanted to play Android games on the family PC did the team finally have a lightbulb moment.

The plan is finally making its way to the tech world with BlueStack’s demonstration of the technology and detailing of the ins and outs of their road map in persuading PC makers to run their software on new computers at the Citrix Synergy conference today. This will enable Android apps to run on Windows computers. Early partners will be announced next week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. BlueStack’s also landed a series A funding of $7.6 million from Ignition Ventures, Radar Partners, Helion Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

The move seems like an answer to the inexorable conquest of Android and iOS, making PC makers think the only way to stand out in the market is to leverage with Android by making Android tablets. “All of them are suffering because the iPad came out,” Sharma said in an AllThingsD article. “They don’t really have an answer. The answer most of them come up with is lets make an Android tablet.”

Essentially, the new BlueStacks, in all its glory, is a Windows machine. It will support Android 2.2, Froyo, but will be upgradeable in the future. The company will be distributing it in a massive scale at more than $10 per PC, though the exact amount is not specified. “It’s not in the single digits,” he said.

For more information, check out Citirx Synergy, a conference dedicated to the virtualization space, today. It will show off what’s to come and the milestones achieved in the previous year. SiliconAngle will be broadcasting interviews, as well as discuss the conference. Check out Silicoangle.tv.


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