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Currency Converter now has a distinguishing icon, shown in Figure 7-9.
Figure 7-9
Currency Converter sporting an elegant icon
Configuring your applications appropriately is essential for providing a good experience to your customers.
This practice also lets you to take advantage of Mac OS X services, such as managed installations. Managed
installations rely on application identifiers and version numbers to determine, for example, whether a user
is trying to install an earlier version of an application over a newer one. As a result, the user is protected from
unknowingly performing a potentially disruptive operation.
You benefit from managed installations because, when you create a delivery solution for your product, you
don't have to worry about the details of installing the product for the first time, upgrading to a newer version,
or downgrading to an earlier version. Mac OS X handles the details for you.
What's Next?
Now that your project is complete, you may want to learn about what separates Cocoa from other frameworks.
You probably noticed how much you can do with the application you built without programming any of
those features. In the next chapter, you learn about many of the features Cocoa supplies and how to take
advantage of them.
What's Next?
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Configuring Your Application