The Mac App Store: What you need to know

07.01.2011

Neither. When you buy a Mac App Store app, it’s installed directly in your Applications folder and added to your Dock.

No, once they’re in your Dock they behave like any other app. You can drag them out (or control-click and choose Options -> Keep in Dock) to banish them.

You can move the app out of the Applications folder after it has been installed, and they’ll run fine. We’re not sure how this will affect updates, since the apps we just bought haven’t required updating yet.