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

• 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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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It means downloading not from the internet but from another device.

      It doesn’t.

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