Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
by stuaxo on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:59PM
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I know a couple of people who do this, and tried to explain - but they are happy the way they are.
Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
by wlesieutre on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:10AM
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The goal of an installer would be that when someone fumbles through an installation for the first time with no guidance, the correct path is more obvious than the incorrect one.
The reason it's a problem now is that screwing it up is easier than doing it right, and unless the DMG's author manually added it, there's not even a hint that you should do something other than open the image and run it from there.
IMO the "some apps do it automatically" is even worse because it's inconsistent. Some apps will do it automatically and teach you that it's the way to get things installed, and then the rest of your apps won't. If checking on run and offering to move is the solution, it ought to be standardized systemwide so that users can (correctly) learn to expect it.
Perhaps, but they just need to be told once what to do, and it's dead easy. Having an installer is not that more intuitive -- they'd still have to be shown how to use their first one.
>This is such a common use case that I don't understand why Apple didn't just make a "This disk image is an installer" flag, and automatically prompt the user with "Do you want to install this to the Applications folder?"
Yeah, some apps do it automatically when opened from the DMG.