Mac App Store Makes Installation Simple

For all of the Mac’s (mostly valid) reputation for being easy to use, installing new software on a Mac can be pretty confusing to novices and new users. Zips, .dmg files, disk images: these are concepts many non-geeks often don’t understand.

On the Mac there’s a good chance someone will run a new application from the disk image instead of copying the app to their hard drive. I’ve mentioned before how the iPhone made this issue go away: “iPhone and iPad app installation is easy: find the app you want to install, the icon appears, you move it to the screen you want.” Simple.

Enter Apple’s new Mac App Store which makes software installation on the Mac as easy on the iPhone: Buy an app and it appears right in your dock. That kind of application installation simplicity has been missing from OS X for too long.