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?
So here is an idea, and hear me out on this one: you could use multiple words to indicate what you’re trying to say, I do believe language allows for that.
Unless you want to have separate new words for walking to a hospital, walking to a school, walking to work, and walking to the bathroom, because the word walking alone can’t do that!
Meat used to refer to any kind of food. Now it means animal flesh. Girl used to be a gender neutral term for any child.
Install in a smartphone context means “from the app store” now.
No amount of “here is an idea” hohoho sarcasm is going to reverse the flow of language.
No one’s forbidding you from using the word install.
We have universal words like go, as in “go by foot” or “go by car” or “go by bus”.
But we also have words like walk, run, drive, bus (as a verb), and Uber to specify how you go to a place.
And we can have words to specify how you install an app.
In my opinion, we’re more likely to win by reclaiming sideloading (by giving it a positive connotation) or creating new words (and giving corpo installs a negative connotation) than we are to get current and future smartphone users to go back to using an older definition of the word install.