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Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Correct, but what do you propose? In your terminology installing from the Play Store is "sideloading" and installing directly is "installing". But surely you agree that if an article was titled "Google makes installing apps on Android harder, but sideloading will be as smooth as before", everyone would understand the opposite of that.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I would personally like to just go back to calling it installing, but I doubt that is even less likely than getting back "-lications" to my programs (just a dumb joke about how applications slowly became apps).

    Its all good though, I'm just an old man bitching on the internet.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Installing from other app stores. Installing, but not from the Play Store. Installing from not-Google-controlled stores.

    It's installing. Context can be given using this wonderful semantic device called "subordinate clauses".

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah exactly, and we reached all the way back to my original comment: you can't just replace "sideloading" with "installing", without adding additional clarification.

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