Re: Installer UI advices

[M. Uli Kusterer]

> On 14-Mar-05, at 9:28 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>
> > [...] That's why Apple now has so-called "internet-enabled" disk 
> > images, which mount themselves, copy their contents to the hard 
> > disk, unmount themselves and then delete the image.

 Someone replied to this off-list, saying that this was highly inefficient.

 Well, I think that depends on the scope of your observations. If you 
*only* look at bandwidth used up by people downloading the archive a 
second time after it's gone, e.g. to reinstall.

 But it saves them the time of having to learn about disk images *or* 
archives. They just download the application, and an application 
shows up on their desktop. Having to re-download an app definitely 
isn't the norm. Having to unpack the archive/image and throw it away 
after installation is more common.

 And since these are usually self-contained applications or 
installers, you can simply copy them to a floppy or whatever to back 
them up, you don't need an archive around them to do that.
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M. Uli Kusterer
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