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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading (f-droid.org)
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[–] Nukitashi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Guys... Google is backing up on this, We ahve protected Android from become Googlify!

[–] PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is it not called side-loading on PC/ Linux PCs?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

The real question should be: Why is it called side-loading on phones? Because whether phone owners use the App Store/Google Play or a third party store, all they're doing is installing something. Which, to answer your question, is what you do on PCs. The term "side-loading" is probably something some nutsack in marketing thought up.