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minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days ago Can I ask you why Google has deliberately chosen to ALWAYS use the term For the same reason I ALWAYS use it: Because it’s shorter than “installing apps from outside the Google Play Store”. How do you think this came to be? I literally just told you that in the comment you replied to.
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoI do not agree with your reasoning, tempting as it may be to believe that Google is neutral
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoGoogle is not neutral, that doesn’t mean they invented the word or that the word itself is somehow inexplicably malicious.
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI don’t think they invented the word It’s naive to think Google doesn’t have a reason behind the popularization of a term that indicates to the user they’re not the one in ultimate control of their own personal device Keep getting upset over it though if that makes you happy
For the same reason I ALWAYS use it: Because it’s shorter than “installing apps from outside the Google Play Store”.
I literally just told you that in the comment you replied to.
I do not agree with your reasoning, tempting as it may be to believe that Google is neutral
Google is not neutral, that doesn’t mean they invented the word or that the word itself is somehow inexplicably malicious.
I don’t think they invented the word
It’s naive to think Google doesn’t have a reason behind the popularization of a term that indicates to the user they’re not the one in ultimate control of their own personal device
Keep getting upset over it though if that makes you happy