After all the years I’ve been working with Apple products, the company still sometimes manages to surprise and delight me.

For a work project, I had to purchase Apple’s Keynote, which is cheap if you buy it via the new App Store in the Apple Menu. The App Store comes up in a browser-like window, with a big icon of the app you are browsing in the upper left.

The surprising bit for me was, the instant I clicked the purchase button, the icon in the browser jumped out of the App Store window and floated down my screen to the Dock, where it was superimposed with a download progress bar.

“Useless eye candy!” I hear the command-line menschen sneer. Maybe. But also totally awesome! And even sensible, as anybody can appreciate if they’ve tried to explain to their mother-in-law how to download and install an app.