Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You could go with something in between? Side loading is a loaded term created to insinuate we are doing something we shouldn’t be doing.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No it’s not. Someone just made that up.

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, Apple. Before that it was called Installing

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Once again, no they didn’t. Literally just look it up. You have the knowledge of the world at your fingertips.

        The term “sideload” was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, Apple notoriously invented it for the Android Debug Bridge too.

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