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Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by Operyl on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:52AM (#16352012)
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.
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Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by hamandcheese on Sunday February 11, 2018 @05:18AM (#16352069)
I 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.
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Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by etatoby on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:42AM (#16352842)
That'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.
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Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by ridiculous_fish on Sunday February 11, 2018 @05:43AM (#16352132)
Best 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.

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Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by Operyl on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:33AM (#16352263)
We'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.
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