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• grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Phones are just computers except they fit in your pocket and have a cellular connection. Distinction without a difference

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Phones are a specific type of computer. I wonder if some madlad hates the term “smart phone” so much that they’re out there calling them computers and confusing everyone.

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    • HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      smart phone literally means phone with computer or computer-like abilities, contrary to popular belief, smartphones existed before the iPhone and in fact didn’t have to be a locked down slab of glass

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      • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Nobody is disputing what smart phones are lol, just that people do make the distinction and do use different terms

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• Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, it’s about phones because they changed established practice, but then why use a new word for what was established practice and not the ’new’, phone-specific, practice of limiting app availability?

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sideloading is a more specific term than just “installing”, it’s more about where you got the software, the process of installing it. So people started using a more specific term to distinguish it from other types of installing.

    Why people choose to adopt one word or another, I dunno. We just started calling it sideloading and that’s been the term for as long as I remember (though very early on I didn’t read or write much in English)

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