Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil

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• darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why do people find it acceptable to use the bizarre word “sideloading” for the fundamental operation of “installing one’s own software on one’s own device”?

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  • archchan@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Corpo marketing to obfuscate the idea of installing software and nurture dependency to pre-installed proprietary repositories for an entire crowd of dependent non-tech savvy users that doesn’t know what an apk is probably.

    I avoid using the term unless I’m being cheeky about “sideloading” from Google Play.

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  • centof@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because the media uncritically parrots the companies PR talking points and then it’s suddenly the accepted terminology.

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s the word I’ve heard used for this all my life, and it’s much shorter than “installing software without an app store”.

    It’s not bad journalism to use terms of art.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve started seeing it from people talking about Windows.

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  • commander@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The powers that b really were ahead of the game when they introduced smartphones to the masses (dumbasses).

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• lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I’m Brazilians now 🇧🇷 🫡

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Awesome news! Thank you lemmy.eco.br!

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Will this follow in other countries?

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s go! Thank you Brazil! We need to up open sideloading worldwide!

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