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Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks agoYeah, 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?
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 weeks 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)