That same year, more than 630 million Windows devices would be sold across the world.

After more than two years of developing the product, the first BlueStacks demo was finally unveiled to the public in April 2011.Īt the time, Android slowly managed to grow into the dominating mobile OS that it is today. The three began working on BlueStacks while being employed at McAffee. That’s where he ended up meeting his co-founders Vaishnav and Saraf who each held senior roles at the company. In 2010, he joined software security company McAfee and became the CTO of its virtualization products. Throughout the years, he managed to exit two more startups, namely GreenBorder to Google and Teros, which was purchased by Citrix. While at Stanford, he started his first company called VxTreme, which was later acquired by Microsoft. from both Cornell University as well as Stanford. Simply download the desktop software, sign in using your Google account, and then search and download the games you wish to play.Īpart from its regular desktop emulator, BlueStacks also allows users to play games within their browser via a product dubbed BlueStacks X.īlueStacks, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California, was founded in 2008 by Rosen Sharma (CEO), Jay Vaishnav, and Suman Saraf.ĬEO Sharma graduated from IIT Delhi with a Gold Medal and received a Computer Science Ph.D.

Using BlueStacks is as simple as it gets. Other features the emulator offers include the ability to play multiple games at the same time, real-time translations, recording and replaying actions, full-HD support, and more. The games can even be played using one’s mouse and keyboard. While the emulator is particularly optimized to facilitate playing games on your desktop, it also allows you to run many other apps. The software essentially creates a virtual version of an Android device that closely resembles a phone’s screen.īlueStacks’ emulator is compatible with around 97 percent of apps that are available in Google’s Play Store. BlueStacks is an emulator that allows Mac and Windows users to run almost any available Android app on their desktop devices.

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