Why Does It Need an Installer? - Alex_6

> I think you're panicking unnecessarily.

Who's panicking?

> All the installer does is deposit an
> application on your desktop for you to
> transfer to your application folder.

Then why use an installer at all? Apple's "Software Delivery Guide" states quite clearly: "A manual install is the preferred delivery solution because it offers the simplest install experience for small or compact products, such as a single application package."

If the application is too complex for a manual install, then why not use the Apple installation package -- which provides to the user, among other things, a list of files to be installed and their destinations.

> You can afford to be paranoid about
> software lurking on some dodgy p2p server,
> but not with this.

If that's what you think, I have three words for you: Norton Disk Doctor.

Bottom line: This ain't Windows. There's no reason why this app should come as an installer. If others don't have to, this one doesn't either. And if the developers can't get that much right about what the Mac experience should be like, what else have they got wrong?

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Thursday, February 22 2007 @ 02:36 PM PST