Comment by paxys
3 days ago
Downloading and installing an app from a source other than the official store included with the OS.
Because that is a mouthful people named it "sideloading".
3 days ago
Downloading and installing an app from a source other than the official store included with the OS.
Because that is a mouthful people named it "sideloading".
Just call it "installing".
I don't "sideload" spotify on my windows machine, i installed it.
Nobody says "I'm downloading and installing an app from the official store for the platform". It's "installed an app" at best. And yes, Android phones had "an official" stores besides Play Market.
Eh, but you can just install apks now you don't need to say where it's from when you talk about it, or if I did I might say "install SillyOpenSourceApp" from Fdroid.
"Direct app installation"
There is no such thing as an official store for anything. You can use any app store you want. But normal installing without an app store is called normal. The app store is the side show. If an OS locks you to their brand's app store and blocks normal installation, that is not legal since its a monopoly action.
> There is no such thing as an official store for anything.
This goes beyond advocacy into straight up... well I won't yet call it lying but it's intentionally using words in a way that will mislead people using words the normal way.
That we should just call things installing, yeah I see where you're coming from. But in your other comment where you go so far as to conclude that "The side load is the app store"? That's just wrong.
US law should never have allowed it. That is without passing anything new.
The OS controlling the software that can run on it is absolutely illegal. So you don't get to call something an "official app store" when the notion is illegal. Regulators may not regulate, but we don't change how we describe things factually.
Just look at the poor security record of these "official" app stores. They are not official anything.
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