Another reason sideloading is important.

Sideloading isn’t a real term - there is only loading a better OS than whatever spy-tech google is offering.

You can’t “sideload” hardware you own - you just install whatever software you like and prefer

Jesus Tittyfucking Christ, yes it is. I’m not typing out “installing software from outside the Google Play Store” every time, so you can go away.

You could go with something in between? Side loading is a loaded term created to insinuate we are doing something we shouldn’t be doing.

No it’s not. Someone just made that up.

Yes, Apple did. Before that, it was called downloading

Once again, no they didn’t. Literally just look it up. You have the knowledge of the world at your fingertips.

The term “sideload” was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

Had I said “downloading” it wouldn’t have made much sense, would it?

Can I ask you why Google has deliberately chosen to ALWAYS use the term sideloading? Doesn’t that seem weird for an internet company - who should know better - to not just say “install?”

How do you think this came to be?

Can I ask you why Google has deliberately chosen to ALWAYS use the term

For the same reason I ALWAYS use it: Because it’s shorter than “installing apps from outside the Google Play Store”.

How do you think this came to be?

I literally just told you that in the comment you replied to.

I do not agree with your reasoning, tempting as it may be to believe that Google is neutral