This 100%. For me, the philosophy is not so much a terminal-centric design but a keyboard-centric design. Sure, this could be done in a GUI, but even GUIs with a keyboard-centric design are not as fluid as a TUI.

I'll also add that (like the parent comment) I did not get the appeal. Not until I forced myself to use it more and saw the benefits.

I wouldn't say delusional. At the top of the decade it did seem like it was a plausible evolution as remote work became more popular, what with the pandemic and everything.

In Ready Player One, what made VR so ubiquitous was that the real world had gone to shit. Perhaps that is the true prerequisite for widespread VR adoption?

Ready Player One is a novel.

Basing our technological predictions off of what was interesting in a sci-fi novel is a terrible way of going about things.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Honey by Paypal has entered the chat

Its hype and rise, or it's trust-betrayal and downfall?

Yes ;)

This is true. Battlefield 6 is in this boat

I could see Steam creating the OASIS

Any idea if Gabe likes Rush?

I snagged a Pixel 8A for around 200 on ebay.

Could either of those be considered a major Android OEM? I was thinking Motorola.

True. Or maybe resurrect HTC.

Honestly it's not surprising at all but it's worth discussing as they are the first AI service to announce this.

Agreed. "Sideloading" has been marketed as a boogeyman opening doors to malware, when in fact malware exists on the play store anyway.

It hasn't been marketed that way, its a term which differentiates installing apps from the app store and installing them outside of it.

I understand what sideloading means, as I'm sure the rest of HN knows. But to the layman non-techie, it has indeed been marketed as a boogeyman.

Even in the Android developers blog post:

> We’ve seen how malicious actors hide behind anonymity to harm users by impersonating developers and using their brand image to create convincing fake apps. The scale of this threat is significant: our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.

The research paper that shows their methodology for discovering these results AHS not been published by Google, to my knowledge. Just a mere "trust me, bro".

Edit to include link to source: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-...

But even if they used the term installing apps instead of sideload, what other word would they use? If they said "50 times more malware from internet sources than on apps through Play Store" people will still come up with their own wording.

If they use the word install apps, they would need to say installing apps from outside of the play store, in which case people are going to automatically try to come up with a different word to associate that with. Any word we come up with is going to be subject to being used for the good and the bad.