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

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I didn’t say that’s what you said

  It was clearly the implied suggestion. I’ve already answered your questions a dozen times elsewhere. Gonna have to have a poke around because I don’t feel like typing them again.

  Or do you agree that there’s no functional difference and splitting hairs about where it came from is just a way to enforce corporate hegemony?

  The functional difference is that one means “installing from anywhere” and the other means “installing from outside the default app store”. They are different words with different meanings, one being more specific than the other.

  It’s like saying “neurosurgeon” instead of “medical professional”. There is a difference. One is much more specific. “Neurosurgeon” wasn’t made up by Big Pharma to gaslight you into believing brain surgery was bad, it’s just a lot fewer words than “medical professional who does surgery on brains”.

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  • choochooMF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The functional difference is that one means “installing from anywhere” and the other means “installing from outside the default app store”. They are different words with different meanings, one being more specific than the other.

    If the outcome is the same, then there is no functional difference. If I say I need to see a doctor, there is a functional difference between a neurosurgeon and another medical professional. If I say I want to download a calculator app, there is no functional difference if I download it from a first-party app store or a third-party app store. You’re splitting hairs. Stop supporting corporate hegemony.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If the outcome is the same, then there is no functional difference.

      The outcome is absolutely not the same. If Google said “we’re no longer allowing you to install apps”, that would be a completely different conversation. I don’t understand why this needs to be explained…

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      • choochooMF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If there is a functional difference, then why can’t you say what the difference is? You continue to refuse to do so BECAUSE THERE IS NO FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE. All you’re doing is installing an app. The only thing that changes is where the app comes from and if your corporate overlords approve of it’s origin. So again, what fundamental difference does it make where the app comes from?

        My brother in Christ, you’re literally the one splitting hairs…that’s the opposite of what I’m doing.

        I’m saying they’re the same. You’re saying these two things that are functionally identical are fundamentally different. In what conceivable way am I splitting hairs?

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why would you want to call it sideloading when you’re not loading from the side? It’s just doing what Google wants you to do.

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