Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoWholly incorrect. You’re allowed to sideload up to 3 apps (or 10 appIDs, whichever comes first) without being a developer, if you’re in any part of the world. In the EU you’re allowed to install third party app stores, which isn’t sideloading
suigenerix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The limitations depend on which program you’re using - there’s more than one - which is why I only gave a simple example.
Side loading is installing an app from anywhere but the official store. So by definition “third party” is side loading. Whether it’s another store or authorised is irrelevant.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
No it doesn’t. It’s in all the documentation, official and otherwise
You can’t just make up a definition, believe it, and then share it like it’s true. We’re going by the legal definition as that’s the only one that counts.
Apple only allows up to 3 apps or 10 appIDs to be sideloaded, wherever you are in the world. Period.
suigenerix@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Youre not getting it. The developers of the tools can and do impose their own additional limitations. They’re still limitations of the programs which is what we were taking about.
And it doesn’t matter what limitations Apple imposes in its walled garden, their phones can still be jail broken and side loaded in the more traditional way.
The concept of sideloading is a general term that applies to multiple platforms, not something Apple owns or gets to dictate. No one is making up anything here.
www.twingate.com/blog/glossary/side-loading
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/sideload
zimperium.com/glossary/sideloading
Etc.
If your argument requires cherry picking, ignoring key points, and baseless ad homenims, it’s not a good point.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I said Apple allows sideloading, you tried to correct me, and then changed your argument when you realized you were wrong. It’s just you not getting it.