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Re: Installer UI advices
From: |
M. Uli Kusterer |
Subject: |
Re: Installer UI advices |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:15:52 +0100 |
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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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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- Re: Installer UI advices, Quentin Mathé, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Markus Hitter, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, Markus Hitter, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Graham J Lee, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Jesse Ross, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Quentin Mathé, 2005/03/15
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- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/14
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