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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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