Installation is definitely weird. Now that /Applications is protected anyway (it is a virtual folder showing content from both the built-in system image and th

Installation is definitely weird. Now that /Applications is protected anyway (it is a virtual folder showing content from both the built-in system image and the stuff you installed), I wonder why they don’t just streamline it and make disk images auto-install. Those who did not use Macs before Mac OS X may not realize that Mac OS X started out approximating Mac OS 9 behaviors and never really completely ported over all its nice behaviors. The Finder in particular was a joy to use on Mac OS 9, and is somehow still clunky today. Even when they sort of move forward it does not seem as well thought out, e.g. pop-up windows worked beautifully on Mac OS 8.5 but Stacks seem like a kludge by comparison.