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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

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395 points josephcsible | 1 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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HiPhish ◴[13 Oct 25 16:27 UTC] No.45570232[source]▶
We need to stop calling it "sideloading", we should call it freely installing software. The term "sideloading" makes it sound shady and hacky when in reality it is what we have been able to do on our computers since forever. These are not phones, they are computers shaped like phones, computer which we fully bought with our money, and I we shall install what we want on our own computers.
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gruez ◴[13 Oct 25 16:58 UTC] No.45570663[source]▶
>The term "sideloading" makes it sound shady and hacky

"side" refers to the fact that it's not going through the first party app store, and doesn't have any negative connotations beyond that. Maybe if it was called "backloading" you'd have a point, but this whole language thing feels like a kerfuffle over nothing.

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1. SoftTalker ◴[13 Oct 25 18:03 UTC] No.45571454[source]▶
Sounds like "sidestepping" i.e. doing something illegitimately or at least outside the normal path.