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.
Jacob@tolmasky many people have never installed an app from someone’s website. if you ask a gen Z to install a program “foo” on a computer they don’t look for “foo” on a search engine, they check the App Store.
@jazaval And then hilariously don’t get it as the first result despite being an exact string match because AppStore search is bad. I think the ironic/depressing/absurd(?) reality is that they *do* install most apps from the web, either from an app banner or direct link to the AppStore. E.g. most Instagram and TikTok downloads are probably from clicking a TikTok link and then having the site say “watch more by tapping here to get the app from the AppStore!”