For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography.
I don’t personally agree with this, as Juno is just a web view, and acts as little more than a browser extension that modifies CSS to make the website and video player look more “visionOS” like.
Because it isn’t real. You aren’t “sideloading”. You’re simply installing apps. You’re not doing anything different, other than using a source that the big company does not like.
For Apple it is side loading though, they actively prevent non app store installation
It needs a definition because it is a thing that happens though.
You need to differentiate between installing from the app store and installing from other sources, you might not like the choice of word, but we need a word to define it.
It has a definition already, which is the same it always has been. And no, you don’t need to differentiate this. We’ve always installed applications from outside sources. Hell, until recently there weren’t even official app stores and shit. Locked down operating systems where you only get what the tech giant wants you to get is a very recent development in order to take control away from the user.
The reality is that there is a difference now, and it needs to be clarified. How would you, talking to another regular human being communicate to install an app that isn’t in the official app store succinctly? If you just tell someone to ‘install the app’ then you are doing a bad job communicating. Economy of language means that new words are going to form to distill common concepts.
Package managers have existed for a long time, so the concept of app stores isn’t new and is actually generally the accepted solution by the open source community. It’s typically regarded as the safest way to install software as it comes with auditing and active management.
Side loading does a great job at communicating what is being done, and it helps consolidate the various ways you actually install applications into a nice generic term.
A store being locked down doesn’t really have much to do with the concept of side loading anyway, since a locked down device doesn’t support it in the first place.
Yes but sideloading makes it sound like something dangerous to people that don’t know any better. This is by design.
…according to whom? Who came up with this? If they called it “dangerloading” I’d be all on your side.
I guess we were all sideloading apps on Win 7 and other prev gens
Now that there’s a Microsoft/Windows app store, any app not sourced there is sideloaded.
That didn’t answer my question.
Sideloading just means you’re installing apps from outside the first party app store. Im not sure where youre getting the shame and discrediting from.
It did, you just did not accept the answer. Installing apps is just installing apps, regardless of its source. That’s it. Sideloading, just like jaywalking, makes it sound like you are doing something dangerous, something forbidden, something you should not do. The whole locking down of operating systems is to take control away from the user.
No. It didn’t. You just repeated the same statement with no explanation or justification.
You’re mad that a term exists that specifies their source?
…how? Honestly this sounds like something you made up in your head. I don’t understand why you refuse to answer the question.
I don’t understand what that has to do with this conversation.
Maybe look for someone else, because I really don’t have the time nor motivation for delusional internet arguments with willfully obtuse people.
Right, you repeatedly refuse to answer simple questions and I’m the “wilfully obtuse” one. Okay.
Bruh… Then what are you doing commenting on Lemmy? Lol!
I guess even in my nihilistic mind is still too optimistic when it comes to people. I should just stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and just accept that almost everyone will argue in bad faith.