Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoWhen I install software from the Arch User Repository I still just call it installing, even though it isn’t through the standard path. Everywhere else, you don’t make the distinction. For some reason on phones we’ve come to call it sideloading, even though the software is just software —it doesn’t care where it came from.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Because 99% of people are getting it from the same place…
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
even within android, if you attempt to install an apk directly, it doesn’t say “would you like to sideload this application?”, but instead says, “Do you want to install this app?”.
Even Google’s own OS doesn’t use made up language.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t know what that’s supposed to prove. Use of the word is not mandatory.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Again, when I install something from the AUR (which is not where most software comes from) it isn’t given a special term. It’s the exact same situation as “sideloading” but we just call it installing. Can you explain what the difference is between them?
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
LOL you just lumped every other repository into one and then excepted the AUR for…reasons?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Because the AUR is by users. The others aren’t.