{"id":309,"date":"2014-04-24T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=309"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:18:12","slug":"app-store-the-lack-of-feedback-during-the-installation-of-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"App store &#8211; the lack of feedback during the installation of software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just used the App store on OS X for the first time (I know, I know &#8230; the early adopter 3 years after the release). I prefer the standalone software that can be downloaded from developers&#8217; web sites. But I needed Xcode and there&#8217;s no other way. <\/p>\n<p>However <strong>I was left puzzled after clicking the<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/appstore1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>and <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/appstore2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>as this is the screen after the buttons were clicked:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/appstore3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only thing that the interface reveals is that <strong>the software is installing. No<\/strong> way of saying <strong>the progress of it<\/strong>. I left it for a few minutes hoping that it will change and show the progress. Nope. Then I started to explore the UI and finally <strong>hit the &quot;Purchases&quot;<\/strong>?!?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And here it was <strong>the missing progress &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/appstore4.png\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>I haven&#8217;t purchased the software nor was I expecting to find the progress there.<\/strong> It would be more &quot;natural&quot; to find it on the page of the software itself (and in addition maybe on the purchases page &#8211; although the latter should be named differently &#8230; maybe Downloads and purchases).<\/p>\n<p>This was similarly confusing than the <a href=\"index.php?\/archives\/309-Downloading-from-ELMS-left-me-wonder-...-bad-feedback-by-a-web-page.html\">MS ELMS web page<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just used the App store on OS X for the first time (I know, I know &#8230; the early adopter 3 years after the release). I prefer the standalone software that can be downloaded from developers&#8217; web sites. But I needed Xcode and there&#8217;s no other way. However I was left puzzled after clicking&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}