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 agoIf 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…
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
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?
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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
It means downloading not from the internet but from another device.
It doesn’t.
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?
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?
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
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.
choochooMF@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You literally didn’t. Youre a waste of oxygen.