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Originally Posted by Russic
Can I just chime in and say of all the things Mac do well, the app install process seems needlessly complicated. I realize it's not complicated once you do a couple, but it seems that the first time anybody is tasked with installing an application on a Mac they give the Mr. Spock single eyebrow raise.
I have an application that (among other things) lets you drag the .dmg file to it in your dock, it mounts the dmg, copies the app to your app folder and ejects the .dmg for you. It seems kind of odd I need an app to break that process down. Just seems very un-apple.
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Yeah, I'm with you on that. When I first switched over, the app install process seemed very... unnatural...
I wonder how much of that was due to MS brainwashing me into thinking that I can't run an application unless many, many files are first scattered all over my hard drive in lots of secret little hidden folders.
The whole "just drag the app to your app folder and then use it" thing took a whole to get my head around, for sure. I kept trying to run apps from inside DMGs and then wondering why they disappear on me, etc etc. Very un-apple.
Incidentally, what's the name of that app you mentioned?