Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

Your first link actually fits the description I gave, yet you're presenting it here as if unacknowledged.

Most of the usages you link to are in the paradigm of rom flashing or physical media data transfer, and don't even have the upshot of implying that "install" means download from preferred distributor, which is critical since that's what this whole thread is about. Hilariously, even your own links contain numerous casual references to "install" to describe the ordinary act of transferring files into the phone outside of the play store. Which is devastating for your point if your point is that sideloading is supposed to be exclusive term for that action, and that "install" has a long-standing and specific usage as meaning "distributed from Play Store."

Scattershot usage from people flashing ROMs or finding workaround hacks for hardware errors don't demonstrate that that vocabulary was as widely understood in the public consciousness as a settled meaning for sideload much less that the term install exclusively refers to downloading from the Play Store. And again importantly for this thread, it actually shows an evolution of the term that predominantly was about workaround hacks and rom flashing, which has now grown to comprehensively mean any installation of an app from outside the Play Store. If anything, that's a demonstration of a neologism.

And as a kid who grew up on Windows computers in the late '90s and early 2000s, it astonishes me that I have to say this but computing existed before 2009, and gives us a history from which we can draw when figuring out the established use of terms.

And again, as I already said, this sideload/install usage is unique to Android, not observed on Windows, Linux or even Apple. Giving me a bunch of links to a form of usage that I already accounted for in my own comment, and not addressing the more important part of my comment about the prevalence of install as a distribution neutral term, disregarding the history of computing prior to Android and outside of Android is an unfortunate misunderstanding of what your links do and don't say in this context.

Hardly, you are intentionally looking at peak consumption because it suits the answer you want after being proved wrong. This is nicely highlighted by how you want to casually dismiss benchmarks which don't support your point.

> Your argument is that, since manufacturers are putting larger batteries in phones, SoC power consumption shouldn’t matter. That is moving the goalpost, because you introduce a variable that should be irrelevant to SoC performance testing to dismiss my observation.

No, that is looking at the actual experience of using the phone. Peak consumption is a useless metric. Nobody cares. People care about their phone feeling smooth and how often they have to charge. From this point of view, Apple has no lead whatsoever provided by their SoC while they used to which is the point I have been making from the start.

> The whole claim that Qualcomm is on par with Apple predicates upon results from benchmarking tools, which stress CPU and GPU and thus induce peak power consumption.

If you are saying that Qualcomm and Mediatek are on par with Apple because they perform the same in Geekbench, then we have to talk about peak power consumption and TDP. But regardless, even if we were to look at average power consumption over time, Elite Gen 5 still tops the A19 Pro by more than *20%*.

> No, that is looking at the actual experience of using the phone. Peak consumption is a useless metric. Nobody cares. People care about their phone feeling smooth and how often they have to charge. From this point of view, Apple has no lead whatsoever provided by their SoC while they used to which is the point I have been making from the start.

Speaking of moving goalposts...

This whole paragraph makes no sense. First you said that Qualcomm is on par with Apple based off benchmarks. Now, if peak consumption doesn't matter, therefore benchmarks don't either, so we have to compare the "experience" of using a phone? How do you quantify that? Which phone would you compare an iPhone with? Does every single phone with an Elite Gen 5 perform exactly the same? Do we choose the Poco F8 Ultra, which seems to throttle and stutter quite frequently, or the OnePlus 15, which reaches external temperatures of 50C?

Anyway, pick a lane, or at least make a good point, because this ain't one.

Unrelated, but this whole thing reminds me of how, back in the day, some manufacturers would put a desktop CPU and GPU inside a laptop as thick as a brick, fed the 10Kg monstrosity with a 400W power adapter, and call it "the fastest laptop ever", which could be technically true, but was very, very wrong.