Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  there shouldn’t be a distinction.

  There has to be. When 99% of installs come from one location, there needs to be a way to describe that other than “Installing apps from outside the default app store”.

  To make one is to support prejudice against installing software from elsewhere.

  No? It isn’t.

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  • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The majority of PC game sales happen via steam but we don’t call games purchased from GOG “sideloaded.”

    There is no necessary reason to make the distinction

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There is no necessary reason to make the distinction

      There is and I’ve already given it. MS app store doesn’t make up 99% of installations.

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      • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Okay, I understand your position. Android’s play store has market dominance, so the a term to distinguish between 99% of play store installs vs others, makes sense.

        Now, that is a tangent to the main issue, just arguing semantics. The issue is control versus openness, not about the term sideloading.

        Is Google’s plan to restrict app sideloading a good thing in your eyes, or no?

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  • choochooMF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When 99% of installs come from one location, there needs to be a way to describe that other than “Installing apps from outside the default app store”.

    Y tho. What difference does it make? Its the same thing.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s simply not the same thing and if you can’t understand how that makes it different, I don’t know how to help you.

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      • choochooMF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Installing an app is not the same thing as installing an app? What difference does it make where it came from? Why do you need two different words for installing an app? Why does the distinction of where it came from matter when the outcome is no different?

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  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The words for distinguishing between apps that come from one trusted location vs others is usually untrusted or unverified apps versus trusted or verified ones. “Installing apps from outside the default app store” converts to, “Installing an untrusted app”.

    It’s not that complicated.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Installing apps from outside the default app store” converts to, “Installing an untrusted app”.

      It doesn’t. It’s not that complicated.

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