Running an installer or opening an app for the first time might scatter files all over the place, particularly in various subfolders of /Library and ~/Library, such as Application Support, Caches, Frameworks, and LaunchAgents. As Mac OS X evolved, more and more apps needed to put more and more files in more and more places. Even for simple drag-to-install apps, there would nearly always be preference files, logs, and a few other items stored elsewhere. Of course, it wasn’t quite true that apps were self-contained. Done! Everything you needed was contained in the application package - a folder that looks and acts like a single file. To install them, you dragged them to your Applications folder, and to uninstall them, you dragged them from there to the Trash. In the early days of Mac OS X, Apple made a big deal about how most applications were, by design, self-contained. #1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials.1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs.#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle.
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