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The things I like better in OS X aren't really design features so much as, well, I don't know what you call them. App bundles are so much better than whatever M
by teamhappy 12y ago
The things I like better in OS X aren't really design features so much as, well, I don't know what you call them. App bundles are so much better than whatever MS has in store. The help in OS X is beautiful. I can still remember the day I gave my mum an old MacBook and showed her that she can basically search for a button she can't find in realtime and they'll point a huge arrow at it. The Windows help (still is?) really just a huge manual.
- joshstrange 12y agoOS X help is amazing.... if they have what you are looking for. But this is a problem in all OS's and I do think that the "Show you where what you are searching for in the menus" is a huge UI/UX improvement over anything else. It's leaps and bounds above Windows "Here is a manual, good luck".
- Gigablah 12y ago> App bundles are so much better than whatever MS has in store Hm? The dmg files that you have to double-click on, manually drag into your app folder, then manually unmount from the desktop? Why do I still have to do all that busywork in 2015?
- teamhappy 12y agoApp bundles are folders with a file extension and a binary at a specific place. Folders that you can double click (and then some!) That's pretty great. DMG files are a way to ship app bundles (or other files). They're basically images with compression and checksumming added on top (I think). Images are useful (compared to, say, a zip archive) because you can mount them (e.g., over a network). That's useful for all kinds of sysadmin-y things. (Compression and checksumming are obviously useful as well.)