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Comment by unrented7977

3 days ago

It's not newspeak, we've been calling it sideloading since the 90s

Got any citations for that? The first time I personally ever encountered the term "sideload" was at a Microsoft developer demo for the upcoming Windows Phone around 2010, and another audience member raised his hand to ask what that term meant.

right but sideloading means installing outside the official channel. last i checked playstore was an option, not android official.

  • > sideloading means installing outside the official channel

    On VMS ? Or plan9 ?

That is untrue. It's called "installing" or just "running". Sideloading makes no sense if you describe normal installing that way. The side load is the app store.

Not for apps and games on most phones.

I made these and we installed them as JARs or Whatever Symbian used.

No, we called it installing software.

  • And also the phones people had in the early to mid 90's were analog bricks, with serious batteries. The smaller phones like nokias came 97 onward and were smaller.