ꓤɔᴉʇɐʇS"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software.
Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority:
- sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon)
- sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from mcdonalds)
- sidethinking (using my own brain instead of asking chatgpt)
- sidelistening (to my own music instead of on spotify)
- sidechatting (irl instead of online)
lia@StaticR Eh, the analogy doesn't quite work. When you cook a homemade dinner, you're not interacting with McDonald's at all, but when you "sideload" an app onto your Android phone, it's still Android.
A more accurate analogy would be "bringing homemade food into a McDonald's", which... well, would be banned too.
However, adding your local music library to Spotify, and adding your own local video games to Steam, both are a thing.
The real question is whether Android is a service Google provides to you similar to a McDonald's restaurant (which by sideloading you're illegitimately changing) or a tool similar to a file manager, which can be used however you please.
I'm also on your side obviously. It was just a bad analogy I think.
Leeloo
Jacob@leeloo @lianna @StaticR uh, actually the correct analogy would be licensing a franchise of a McDonald’s in a building that you own, and then breaking the rules of that franchise agreement by selling or eating food outside the dining standards. don’t license the franchise, i.e., don’t run software you don’t agree with, even if you need it for technical reasons.
@jazaval @leeloo @lianna pretty sure you can do that actually, as long as it remains street legal you can make modifications to a car's engine, patent law has nothing to do with that.
Though that isn't really analogous to installing apps on a phone because apps typically don't make changes to the core OS, they're just a layer on top. For the car analogy it'd be more like installing your own dashcam.
@StaticR @leeloo @lianna the issue is that software work is not like engine work. an individual making their phone do something is about 1 person-week’s effort from them making a million phones do that same thing. a person making their engine do something is about a person-century’s effort to multiply to the same number of engines.
@StaticR @leeloo @lianna in a vacuum, you are technically correct. there is no difference. in reality, George Hotz was able to enable an entire generation of people to sideload things onto their PS3s and iPhones *as a literal child*. somehow I think if he was into engines there would have been less widespread IP
violation. I can’t put my finger on why, but maybe you can help?
violation. I can’t put my finger on why, but maybe you can help?