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Can you elaborate on the "annoying install experience?" I find that is completely opposite, most apps are drag and drop install (and finish their set ups on fir
by Operyl 9y ago
Can you elaborate on the "annoying install experience?" I find that is completely opposite, most apps are drag and drop install (and finish their set ups on first launch, if any). Others are a very simple to click through installer. I find the installation experience to be much more .. annoying in windows sometimes. In OS X most apps are installed by dragging and dropping (well, not even required) to /Applications (usually by a folder aliased right to the right of it) and getting a "Installation Progress" in the form of how long it takes to copy data to the disk out of a compressed dmg. In Windows, most installers I run into still do the near straight run to 99%, then sit there for however long the actual installation took, or circles back 15 times.
- hamandcheese 9y agoI believe they are saying installing from the Mac App Store is an annoying experience, which I agree. It’s an inexplicably slow and clunky piece of garbage. It’s almost impressive how bad it is for a “first party” application.
- etatoby 9y agoThat's because the Mac App Store was spawned from iTunes, which has to be the shittiest piece of garbage to ever stain the hard disks of Macs.
- ridiculous_fish 9y agoBest case, installing a non-MAS app involves downloading and extracting a zip file, mounting and then copying from a disk image, and then clicking through the "application downloaded from the Internet!" dialog. Yes it's still much better than the typical Windows installer experience, but zero-install web apps are now setting the bar.
- Operyl 9y agoWe're not talking about simple, zero install web apps here. We're mostly talking about Electron apps, which are "web apps" but still downloaded in the traditional sense though.