They wanted to call it freeloading, but showed a bit of self-restraint.
Whenever you side load anything, you are robbing someone's app store of income. You are not visiting their portal to be exposed to ads, you are not seeing ads in the middle of an application, you are not paying for anything.
Or at least, not paying to them. The only streaming service I pay for in my household is Japanese TV, which uses a side-loaded application. I'm freeloading on the Android TV platform because I only paid for the hardware, and for a streaming service not related any Google revenue funnels whatsoever.
That's what it's about.
It's either a derogatory term for "software loading" or an euphemism for "freeloading", or both.
I bought the hardware, for the price they chose to sell it at. Why should I be obligated to use any of their services, if I can avoid it?
I'm not sure if your comment is satire. So I'll respond as is.
"Not providing potential further income" is not "robbing"... what is being stolen from them? Something they never had in the first place? When I lose a bet I willingly entered, am I being "robbed" of the gains?
Furthermore, who is losing if I go to F-Droid to install an open source app people wrote with no expectation of income? If Google had a better app, I would have installed it from there. Too bad everything is riddled with ads detracting from the core purpose.
> I bought the hardware, for the price they chose to sell it at. Why should I be obligated to use any of their services, if I can avoid it?
Their answer would be something like, that the hardware vendor has nothing to do with them and is also a freeloader, taking advantage of their software ecosystem to sell hardware.