How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
[link] Nice article by John Gruber based on Mozilla's study about Firefox installation problems encountered by some users. Gruber prefers the .zip way and explains why.
In the dedicated thread on Hacker News, there are comments like "With apt-get." or "Lack of package management was one of the reasons I dumped OS X."… Remember we're talking about the average user, my mother and my grand-father. Not you, Linux shell geek.
Tags: application, installation, mac, software, ui, usability