[the_pwner224]

99% of users will have no fucking idea what that means. They will either click 'Allow' (which makes this feature useless for 99% of people) or contact tech support (adds friction to installation, which is bad especially for conferencing software) or just give up and not use the product (which is bad for the company).

[catalogia]

To be fair, it would at least ruin Zoom's incentive to do any of this, since they wanted a streamlined process that prompts the user less.

Why they didn't just use a dmg that has you drag the application into /Applications/ is something I still don't understand though. Surely that is the simplest most user friendly way to have non-technical users install applications without using the appstore.