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Sideloading has always bothered me as a term. It infers an insidious process when you want to get out of the shackles of the gatekeepers. Pure marketing genius

Sideloading has always bothered me as a term. It infers an insidious process when you want to get out of the shackles of the gatekeepers. Pure marketing genius from the Apple folks who want to maintain their monopoly.

filoleg 4y ago
The term has been in existence since way before iPhones were a thing[0], and it doesn't generally have the connotation you are prescribing to it. We use that term at work right now on my team all the time, and it has nothing with app stores or gatekeeping or anything like that. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading
- AnthonyMouse 4y ago
  When you download Firefox from firefox.com and install it on your Mac, it wasn't common to call that "sideloading" in the past. Making it the popular name for the same thing on mobile was the marketing.
  - dlivingston 4y ago
    > sideload /ˈsīdˌlōd/ > 1. install (software, especially an app) obtained from a third-party source rather than an official retailer. > 2. copy or transfer (data) from one device to another directly, typically by means of a link such as a USB cable or wireless connection. The Google Ngram for “sideloading” shows, like you mention, a measurable uptick in usage after the iPhone launch in 2007. Looking closer, there is a steep increase in frequency after the year 2000, with the steepest slope from 2005 - 2009. [1] [0]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideloading&year_start=2000&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideloading&ye... [1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideload_*&year_start=1960&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideload_*&yea...
  - seanhunter 4y ago
    It wasn't common to call that sideloading because it isn't sideloading.
rodgerd 4y ago
> monopoly A word reduced to meaninglessness by surveillance capitalists and useful idiots who are furious at people being able to hire a large company to protect them from Facebook.

filoleg 4y ago

The term has been in existence since way before iPhones were a thing[0], and it doesn't generally have the connotation you are prescribing to it. We use that term at work right now on my team all the time, and it has nothing with app stores or gatekeeping or anything like that. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

AnthonyMouse 4y ago
When you download Firefox from firefox.com and install it on your Mac, it wasn't common to call that "sideloading" in the past. Making it the popular name for the same thing on mobile was the marketing.
- dlivingston 4y ago
  > sideload /ˈsīdˌlōd/ > 1. install (software, especially an app) obtained from a third-party source rather than an official retailer. > 2. copy or transfer (data) from one device to another directly, typically by means of a link such as a USB cable or wireless connection. The Google Ngram for “sideloading” shows, like you mention, a measurable uptick in usage after the iPhone launch in 2007. Looking closer, there is a steep increase in frequency after the year 2000, with the steepest slope from 2005 - 2009. [1] [0]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideloading&year_start=2000&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideloading&ye... [1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideload_*&year_start=1960&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideload_*&yea...
- seanhunter 4y ago
  It wasn't common to call that sideloading because it isn't sideloading.

rodgerd 4y ago

> monopoly A word reduced to meaninglessness by surveillance capitalists and useful idiots who are furious at people being able to hire a large company to protect them from Facebook.