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[–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 3 points 7 months 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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