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

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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    then why can’t you say what the difference is?
    
    I literally just did, twice. If you’re just going to submit angry replies without actually reading the comments then this discussion is doomed, so good day.
    
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    choochooMF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You literally didn’t. Youre a waste of oxygen.
    
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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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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Why would you want to call it sideloading when you’re not loading from the side?
    
    I don’t know what you think “loading from the side” means? I use the term for the same reason I use any other term: to convey ideas through common understandings.
    
    It’s just doing what Google wants you to do.
    
    Why the fuck would Google care what words you use?
    
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    sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The words people use influences public opinion and the bottom line of corporations such as Ford and Google.
    
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