Comment by gruez
1 month ago
>Even now, that's not a term used in Windows or Linux.
No, it's existed in windows 10 (and probably windows 8.1) for over a decade.
https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/13/how-to-enable-developer-mo... (note the date)
>So it's staggering to see a specific term of art that deviates from historical precedent that only is used in an Android context and only relatively recently in the history of computing be referred to as if its observing a longstanding precedent across all of computing. It's nothing of the sort.
None of that refutes anything I said. You're basically arguing "back in the good old days, all installs were not from first party source and there was no distinction", but that doesn't mean no such distinction exists right now. Otherwise it's like arguing "immigration" is some "neologism" because back before the advent of the nation state, people just moved wherever, there wasn't random lines that turned "moving" to "immigration", and the word "immigration" is coined by statists that want to impose their worldview on the populace.
>but that doesn't mean no such distinction exists right now
A distinction only exists if people parrot the verbiage coined by corporations with a business interest in creating artificial moats. They have no obligation to, especially media outlets who have the right (and IMO responsibility) to use accurate vocabulary.