Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days 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 2 days ago
Because 99% of people are getting it from the same place…
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 days 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 2 days ago
I don’t know what that’s supposed to prove. Use of the word is not mandatory.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days 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 2 days ago
LOL you just lumped every other repository into one and then excepted the AUR for…reasons?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Because the AUR is by users. The others aren’t.