There are a ton of apps on the iphone that I would love to use but there's no way I can afford even a used one to do so. I just bought a windows 8 laptop and was wondering if there's some sort of platform or program that will "convert" iphone/adroid apps to use them in windows?

I found and installed BlueStacks. Had a little problem while installing it so I'm currently wiping and trying again. Seems to be a Samsung tablet or phone emulator. Whenever I tried to download apps though I got an error message. I believe it could be from something I did wrong during installation so I'm hoping when I finish it will work.