But that’s what I’m trying to explain and nobody seems to get: that’s the meaning Android put into the term. Long before that, it just used to describe “the process of transferring files between two local devices”.
One more time: Android adopted this term and made it into something “bad”. And I fucking hate that, and everything that entails right now, just like the rest of you.
But the term sideloading is older than Android, and originally did not have this negative connotation, quite the opposite.
Neither wikipedia nor Android are the arbiters for how words get used. I am claiming that we should shun Android’s definition since it is self-serving/and deteimental to society.
Anyone using the 2nd definition without criticizing it is supporting big tech. It is not a high bar to ask people to think critically about the words they use.
It’s in the wikipedia article I linked.
But that’s what I’m trying to explain and nobody seems to get: that’s the meaning Android put into the term. Long before that, it just used to describe “the process of transferring files between two local devices”.
One more time: Android adopted this term and made it into something “bad”. And I fucking hate that, and everything that entails right now, just like the rest of you.
But the term sideloading is older than Android, and originally did not have this negative connotation, quite the opposite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading#Historical
Neither wikipedia nor Android are the arbiters for how words get used. I am claiming that we should shun Android’s definition since it is self-serving/and deteimental to society.
See for reference these two definitions on wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sideload
Anyone using the 2nd definition without criticizing it is supporting big tech. It is not a high bar to ask people to think critically about the words they use.