• Ulrich@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    2 days ago

    It’s simply not the same thing and if you can’t understand how that makes it different, I don’t know how to help you.

      • Ulrich@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        2 days ago

        Installing an app is not the same thing as installing an app?

        Yes, that’s exactly what I said 😮‍💨

          • Ulrich@feddit.org
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            2 days ago

            I didn’t say that’s what you said

            It was clearly the implied suggestion. I’ve already answered your questions a dozen times elsewhere. Gonna have to have a poke around because I don’t feel like typing them again.

            Or do you agree that there’s no functional difference and splitting hairs about where it came from is just a way to enforce corporate hegemony?

            The functional difference is that one means “installing from anywhere” and the other means “installing from outside the default app store”. They are different words with different meanings, one being more specific than the other.

            It’s like saying “neurosurgeon” instead of “medical professional”. There is a difference. One is much more specific. “Neurosurgeon” wasn’t made up by Big Pharma to gaslight you into believing brain surgery was bad, it’s just a lot fewer words than “medical professional who does surgery on brains”.

              • Ulrich@feddit.org
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                2
                ·
                edit-2
                2 days ago

                If the outcome is the same, then there is no functional difference.

                The outcome is absolutely not the same. If Google said “we’re no longer allowing you to install apps”, that would be a completely different conversation. There is a functional differrence.

                If someone sent a nurse in to do your neurosugery, that would absolutely not be the same

                I don’t understand why this needs to be explained…

                You’re splitting hairs

                My brother in Christ, you’re literally the one splitting hairs…that’s the opposite of what I’m doing.

                  • Ulrich@feddit.org
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    2 days ago

                    then why can’t you say what the difference is?

                    I literally just did, twice. If you’re just going to submit angry replies without actually reading the comments then this discussion is doomed, so good day.

                • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  2 days ago

                  Why would you want to call it sideloading when you’re not loading from the side? It’s just doing what Google wants you to do.

                  • Ulrich@feddit.org
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    2 days ago

                    Why would you want to call it sideloading when you’re not loading from the side?

                    I don’t know what you think “loading from the side” means? I use the term for the same reason I use any other term: to convey ideas through common understandings.

                    It’s just doing what Google wants you to do.

                    Why the fuck would Google care what words you use?