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.

• 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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      • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        listen, I’ve been in technology for a long-ass time and I’ve never heard of i-drive nor should I care about the vocabulary they use.

        The first time I ever heard the term sideloading was when these mobile stores started using it to make other options sound illegitimate.

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      • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yep, and that definition was definitely what you meant lmfao.

        You’re obviously within spitting distance of the point, you basically spelled it out in your last sentence, just, I don’t know, reread your words slowly?

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      • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Can I ask you why Google has deliberately chosen to ALWAYS use the term sideloading? Doesn’t that seem weird for an internet company - who should know better - to not just say “install?”

        How do you think this came to be?

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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