I mean, I know app piracy is kinda dead. But how about if I just want .mkvs for Movie, TV, Anime? .epubs for books? Music files?
Are these still gonna work? Do you think they’ll go full draconian and kill piracy outright?
VLC? Torrent Apps? VPNs?
I mean, I know app piracy is kinda dead. But how about if I just want .mkvs for Movie, TV, Anime? .epubs for books? Music files?
Are these still gonna work? Do you think they’ll go full draconian and kill piracy outright?
VLC? Torrent Apps? VPNs?
It’s perfectly descriptive of the method. Installed from the internet, it’s downloaded. Installed from a local source (storage, adb) it’s sideloaded.
No it not. If I have a local .exe file on my HD and install it on my PC you don’t say " I side loaded this software " you usually say " Iinstallled this piece of software ". Don’t succumb to the conditioning these companies want us to believe.
Fixed that for you. Why would the local, direct installation method be the “side” one? Have you become that terminally online?
Your terminology is all wonky here…
Downloading is copying a file from the network onto the local device. Installation extracts files to the appropriate directories, makes config changes, etc… “Installed from a local source” doesnt make sense, as any file you would install you would first need to download or pull off of some other media.
You don’t say “downloaded from a cd” do you? No, you install from a cd. If the primary delivery method for PC was via app store, you’d say “sideloaded” there too.
Downloading from an app store doesn’t place an installer APK from an app store on the device’s storage, like you do when downloading on a PC.
This difference is why the term “sideloading” was coined, to differentiate from using the primary delivery mechanism, the app store.
Downloading from the app store and installing the apk is exactly what it does. 😄
Sideloading is one of those annoying terms that exist to make it sound cooler than what it really is.
Regardless of what term, it’s your device you should be able to install what you want.