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Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Can I ask you why Google has deliberately chosen to ALWAYS use the term sideloading? Doesn’t that seem weird for an internet company - who should know better - to not just say “install?”

How do you think this came to be?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Can I ask you why Google has deliberately chosen to ALWAYS use the term

    For the same reason I ALWAYS use it: Because it's shorter than "installing apps from outside the Google Play Store".

    How do you think this came to be?

    I literally just told you that in the comment you replied to.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I do not agree with your reasoning, tempting as it may be to believe that Google is neutral

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Google is not neutral, that doesn't mean they invented the word or that the word itself is somehow inexplicably malicious.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    I don’t think they invented the word

    It’s naive to think Google doesn’t have a reason behind the popularization of a term that indicates to the user they’re not the one in ultimate control of their own personal device

    Keep getting upset over it though if that makes you happy

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