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.
xsk@tolmasky @josh you are definitely right hinting the reason noone just calls it installing apps is intentional.
Imo though it has to do not only with Apple scaremongering people ( an argument which I find very amusing when people bring it up as it shows so many things about the people doing it ) but also semantically connected to define a process outside the ecosystem of the store owner.
Im sure that as a term will be 100% understandable to anyone when used in any other company context ( sideloading windows apps, car apps etc ) or even not about installing apps ( sideloading configuration, sideloading new interface etc ) .
The main issue I have with this is related to the age old problem, investigated by socrates and even more by plato when he wanted to explain his mentor choice of death and what „absolute truth“ is… and that is the fact that people „believe in Apple/MS/Tesla etc“ and are not basing this to any knowledge or objective thinking.
In short, the subject you open will be received by people that have been conditioned to not challenge the status quo Apple provides, not because they cannot but because they don’t want to. Their decisions in life and even partly who they are ( the arguments they have made that provides existential confidence in a societal norm ) are being attacked by the simplest of questions.
I wish some of them realise that if a simple argument made you feel many feelings, it means that there is something that you can look inside yourself to learn why, before you answer.
As for Apple, it is all about money and suing things with a terminology they like, simple as that.