What is the difference between .dmg and .zip?
- Extension
- .dmg
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Apple
- Phil Katz
- Description
- It is a raw format image file that is developed in MacOS. The mountable disk image data is compressed or encrypted at times and is mainly used for installing Mac application that has been downloaded online.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-apple-diskimage
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .dmg on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia