A Gallery of Installing from .dmg
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In my school one Mac could read DOS disks (i.e. it has a driver for the FAT filesystem), and another could not. So I draggged the "DOS disk support" from Control Panel onto a floppy (copying it), moved the disk to the computer without the capability, and dragged that icon into its Control Panel. Now both computers could read FAT-formatted disks, and I was amazed that the "driver" installation was that straightforward.
I get it that designers like to innovate, but please innovate somewhere else. I want my UI/UX boring, dull and consistent.
There are a number of apps that check if they’re outside that folder on boot and alert the user to either open the right one or actually install it - I.e they ran it from the mounted DMG.
I am also so tired of walking people through the absolute basic operations for installing stuff this way. If it’s still catching people this many years later, it’s probably worth just changing. Though I suppose Apple predominantly cares about the App Store as an installation channel and any other friction is fine.
Since when?
Agree with your other points overall.