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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
VMWare had shown something - Horizon Mobile I think - that was a stab at virtualizing mobile OS on other OS's. Same for Alien Dalvik which basically added a layer to allow for Android app usage on other mobile OS's.

Blackberry has the Runtime for Android apps, so it's not that folks haven't thought of this - I swear VMWare showed virtualization on an iPaq 2210 back in 2003 - but nobody has done this to a point where we'd call it a success or that it's been highly visible.

Alien Dalvik got close, but they switched to a model whereas they wanted an OEM to buy it. Nobody bought it.
Just to make it clear for the others out there, Alien Dalvik and BB Runtime for Android are not virtualizers. Instead, they're API shims, similar to Wine.
OTOH, Horizon Mobile would be like using your phone like this:
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