Hands-on with Amazon's Mac software store

Dan Frakes on trying out Amazon’s new, Mac Software Download App Store Download Web Site Section: >The first thing you actually download is a small disk image (2.1MB in size, in my case) containing an application-specific [Software Name] Downloader program. Open this disk image, if your browser doesn’t mount the image automatically, and double-click the…

Dan Frakes on trying out Amazon’s new, Mac Software Download App Store Download Web Site Section:
>The first thing you actually download is a small disk image (2.1MB in size, in my case) containing an application-specific [Software Name] Downloader program. Open this disk image, if your browser doesn’t mount the image automatically, and double-click the Amazon Software Downloader.app inside. After a few seconds, the Downloader program begins downloading the purchased software—not to your Downloads folder, or even to your Applications folder, but to a new folder on your Desktop.

It gets even worse after this…

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