New Walkman $5,899.99
Sony has released a new Walkman priced at $5,899.99, featuring high-end materials like an oxygen-free copper chassis. The device is targeted at affluent consumers and emphasizes premium audio quality. (electronics.sony.com)
Android apps running native on macOS
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Mac.apk runs Android apps as native macOS programs on Apple Silicon machines without using an emulator, virtual machine, or a Linux layer. Apps launch as ordinary macOS processes, render through the Mac GPU, appear in the Dock, get native windows with a back button, and follow macOS appearance and window behavior. It is alpha software with a compatibility list (65 apps tested: 51 fully playable, 10 partial, 4 not yet), requires macOS 26.4+ on Apple Silicon, and uses roughly 280 MB plus per-app storage. Installation is via a signed disk image: drag into Applications, install the runtime, associate APK file types, and open APKs; first launches can take up to a minute while an app is prepared.
Everything needed to run apps is available as source: an Android framework reimplementation, native runtime, arm64 loader and Bionic shim, an ARM32 recompiler, and bundled open-source components (ANGLE, MoltenVK/Vulkan loader, Capstone, OpenJDK-derived JRE, etc.). It is released under GNU AGPL v3 with a commercial license option. Important security notes warn that APKs run with regular macOS permissions (no phone sandbox), so users should only run trusted APKs; a detailed BUILDING.md, compatibility and known-issues pages, and reporting instructions (including [email protected]) are provided.
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