• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Correct, but what do you propose? In your terminology installing from the Play Store is “sideloading” and installing directly is “installing”. But surely you agree that if an article was titled “Google makes installing apps on Android harder, but sideloading will be as smooth as before”, everyone would understand the opposite of that.

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      7 minutes ago

      Installing from other app stores. Installing, but not from the Play Store. Installing from not-Google-controlled stores.

      It’s installing. Context can be given using this wonderful semantic device called “subordinate clauses”.