Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ... by 14k12j41j211 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:28AM (#22820058)

This is an issue with the installers. The fact that installers on macOS still work like in the 90s baffles me -- I thought they had done something smart with sandboxes, APIs for system privileges, and a "secure path" where user consent uses system-controlled GUI.

This issue mainly tells me that macOS installers are largely like a Windows .exe and Linux curl | sh (well, that's not true since it still needs to be signed…).

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Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ... by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:42AM (#22820118)

Installers aren’t really the preferred way to distribute software on a Mac, unless you need special access to the system for some reason. Most Mac software is distributed as an application bundle that’s dragged wherever you want on the file system and then run by double-clicking.

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Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ... by kitsunesoba on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:42AM (#22820572)

I would go as far to say that a good chunk of more technically inclined Mac users have a tendency to view any user facing software that requires an installer with suspicion.

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