Linux had "stores" long before android

marcosdumay 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, and they are the primary way to install software for nearly every distro that has them.

And even when people install software on their user's home only, we don't call it anything different.

It's correct to say that "sideloading" was created to emphasize it's a deviant activity. I believe it was created by the people doing it, when they discovered hacks that enabled them. But I wouldn't be too surprised it was created by the companies trying to prohibit software installation.

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gruez 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

>Yeah, and they are the primary way to install software for nearly every distro that has them.

>And even when people install software on their user's home only, we don't call it anything different.

But even on Android the word used is "install". When you try to install an apk, the button says "install", not "sideload". "Sideload" is only used in the context of google's blog post, where it's there to differentiate between installs from first party sources vs others. This is an important distinction to capture, because their new restrictions only apply to the latter, so something like "installing isn't going way" wouldn't make sense. "sideload" captures this distinction, and is far more concise than something "installing from third party sources". Moreover this sort of word policing reeks of ingroup purity tests from the culture wars, eg. "autistic vs person with autism" or whatever.

	▲	marcosdumay 9 days ago \| parent [-]
		Personally, the first time I hear that word, it was about video game consoles. Smartphones weren't popular at the time.

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sharpshadow 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The AI says the term sideloading, apart from its origin, was used to describe loading music via USB without iTunes on iPods.

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keernan 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I view Debian apt as helpful. I view Apple App Store as limiting and controlling.