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.
Fell@tolmasky I'm torn both ways about this topic. On the one hand, I agree, side-loading IS the normal way to install applications. On the other hand, having a *trustworthy* third party curate applications somewhat mitigates the risk of installing malicious software. I know this because I haven't had to uninstall browser toolbars from my mum's smartphone.