“Sideloading” is a term created by app store owners to frame installing software from outside their walled gardens as shady/illegal/questionable/problematic/whatever.
No-one would say, “I’m sideloading this application” when not using your distribution’s package manager on your desktop or laptop computer. Why call it sideloading when installing software on your pocket computer, then?
Regardless, it IS a distinct class of installable that needs a name. What would you rather we call it when you have to defeat a walled garden to install software without actually jailbreaking the device?
Does it?
I’d rather distinguish the walled garden variety, e.g. “Download and Install via PlayStore”. Because that’s the special case, not the sideloading, which literally just means executing the installation package.
It’s called “installing”.
“Sideloading” is a term created by app store owners to frame installing software from outside their walled gardens as shady/illegal/questionable/problematic/whatever.
No-one would say, “I’m sideloading this application” when not using your distribution’s package manager on your desktop or laptop computer. Why call it sideloading when installing software on your pocket computer, then?
Preachh
Regardless, it IS a distinct class of installable that needs a name. What would you rather we call it when you have to defeat a walled garden to install software without actually jailbreaking the device?
Does it? I’d rather distinguish the walled garden variety, e.g. “Download and Install via PlayStore”. Because that’s the special case, not the sideloading, which literally just means executing the installation package.
Rizz install
Direct installation or something similar would work just fine.
I vote “raw dogging” applications
What are the relative advantages? We already have a word…
At this point we probably can’t change it but if you read the comments above you’d know the answer to your question.
Well. I have been told. Many apologies, sir.
Aggressive installation
alternative application