Francisco TolmaskyI really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.
⌈Tautology⌋@tolmasky @ihorner we're not saying this to defend apple, but the term "sideloading" is older than the concept of smartphones and, also, accurately describes how applications used to have to be installed on """jailbroken""" iphones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading
Adam@pleonasticTautology @tolmasky @ihorner
Interesting history. They kept the same term even when the new method has nothing to do with the original method. I wonder if that's natural language evolution or "clever" capitalist anti-competitive marketing?
@adamsaidsomething @tolmasky @ihorner so, considering that original third-party application functions did involve having to connect your iphone to your computer (as did most things with the iphone, back then), sideloading made sense
so we reckon it's a case of... not understanding history + semantic drift? enough folks (probably tech journos) deciding that sideloading meant "not using apple's app store" that that’s what it became