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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can I ask you why Google has deliberately chosen to ALWAYS use the term

  For the same reason I ALWAYS use it: Because it’s shorter than “installing apps from outside the Google Play Store”.

  How do you think this came to be?

  I literally just told you that in the comment you replied to.

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  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do not agree with your reasoning, tempting as it may be to believe that Google is neutral

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Google is not neutral, that doesn’t mean they invented the word or that the word itself is somehow inexplicably malicious.

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      • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I don’t think they invented the word

        It’s naive to think Google doesn’t have a reason behind the popularization of a term that indicates to the user they’re not the one in ultimate control of their own personal device

        Keep getting upset over it though if that makes you happy

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