Re:How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the ...
by ptomato on Friday May 21, 2010 @12:39AM
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Well, that's exactly the thing... There's a vast difference between installing some library for a programming language versus an application that John Q. Enduser wants to use.
As far as installing things from source that also has improved greatly in the last two years as well, so there's that.
But in general I'd say the user experience when installing applications on the mac is certainly miles ahead of the way Windows typically works, and arguably better then even Linux (Ubuntu or similar) with the gui frontend to apt-get.
Re:How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the ...
by jacquesm on Friday May 21, 2010 @12:44AM
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How do people find stuff ? Is there a repository of sorts ?
Re:How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the ...
by ptomato on Friday May 21, 2010 @01:28AM
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Well, there's http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
Re:How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the ...
by WiseWeasel on Friday May 21, 2010 @03:28AM
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Versiontracker.com and Macupdate.com are the two big ones for the Mac.
Not exactly 'move to applications'. And if some package is only available in source you're really in for a rough ride.
It's been a while though (about 2 years), possibly it's much easier now than it was then.
I use my mac so little now I've borrowed it to a friend here that does design. Too bad in a way because I really like the machine, it's so quiet compared to the pcs I use.