Altogether, the company is promising that a collection of 500 of the top mobile games across Android and iOS will be playable on its console, as long as you’re willing to pay $6.99 a month.

Running apps from one mobile platform on another is theoretically great for boosting your app selection, but it's not a trivial task -- even BlackBerry's Android support is rough.

You can now use an Android device as the tether when you jailbreak with the help of Checkra1n. It's an update to the Checkm8 bootrom exploit and works on iOS 12.3 onwards.

The touchHLE emulator has many limitations of its own when running on a computer, and all of these still apply to Android. For example, the apps only run on chips with the AArch64 architecture.

Now, code written for Android and iOS apps can be compiled in Visual Studio. It's all part of Microsoft's goal to make it easier for Developers to port apps into Windows.

“We re-create the API that iOS provides, but we don’t use any Apple bits to do it,” said Sharma. “The developer just gives us the app and we make sure that it’ll run on GamePop.” This ...