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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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