The App Store seems to place downloads into the Applications folder. This might be the obvious and logical destination but I prefer downloaded non-Apple apps go in my Downloads folder on my Desktop until I figure out if it really does the job I wanted/needed it for.

Does anyone know if it is possible to specify the download location? This seemed to me like an intelligent question but it got rather brusquely dealt with when I asked it recently in an Apple discussion forum ("no" and "go ask Apple"). Maybe it *is* a dumb question...