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The casual use of the word "sideloading" is dangerous to society. It is literal newspeak with the intent to eliminate even the idea of "installing" and make it
by superkuh 4y ago
The casual use of the word "sideloading" is dangerous to society. It is literal newspeak with the intent to eliminate even the idea of "installing" and make it so people cannot even think of applications outside of a corporation (or institution's) walled garden.
Users installing applications is the default. Walled gardens are the weird dangerous thing.
- eddieroger 4y agoThere was a time when you could only connect a Bell Telephone to the telephone network, too.
- rchaud 4y agoEven the concept of 'installing' is rapidly disappearing. Most smartphone users aren't installing new apps or downloading music files. Most computer users don't install anything besides Microsoft Office, and in a lot of cases, it comes pre-installed and only requires activation. Video games seem to be an outlier, as the enormous size of most games means it can't be streamed well just yet.
- pallas_athena 4y ago> Video games seem to be an outlier, as the enormous size of most games means it can't be streamed well just yet. Stadia worked great until Google did its thing...