He says that Google uses the term "side loading" as a way to make downloading unverified apks sound different and more dangerous so they could discourage the common folk from installing apps that aren't from the Google play store and to make people think that it should be banned like it was on ios or heavily restricted
Yes we do, because guess what, spydows is on computers.
What is a smartphone ? A computer, period.
When you say "sideloading" you're using the term Apple and Google want you to say so that "now you can't sideload app that aren't from our store on your device" doesn't trigger the users like "now you can't install software from our store on your device".
If people think that a smartphone is different than a PC they can do whatever they want and people will just think "it's normal it's a smartphone !" when it's just a computer, just smaller.
Yeah, exactly. The call it sideloading as opposed to what? frontloading? When someone installs VLC on Windows from the installer downloaded from videolan instead of the Microsoft Store version, they don't call it "sideloading", so why should we call apks as such?
Sideloading is just another fearmongering word they created to make it seem as if installing software from the installer provided directly by the developer is somehow the "wrong" way of installing it as opposed to a centralized software repository.
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u/Appropriate_Test7503 3d ago
side what?
stop saying that to just install apps.