Re: iOS 5.1 SDK for Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard?
Re: iOS 5.1 SDK for Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard?
- Subject: Re: iOS 5.1 SDK for Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard?
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:12:58 -0600
On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> Pendant?
>
> Look. Closing the last document and clicking on the Finder quits TextEdit in Lion. Matt and Siracusa have mentioned this rather clearly. Well, it quits the GUI, but the app is still running.
>
> So, the app is still running but its GUI isn't. That's a insanely stupid approach when there is 8 GB of RAM free.
But on every desktop operating system except for Mac OS X, closing the last window quits the application, except for apps that live in the status bar or otherwise need to run in the background. And every mobile smart device operating system except for Maemo doesn't even require users to quit apps; putting them in the background makes them stay resident until the OS needs the resources elsewhere, or until they've been idle for long enough.
So until Lion, Mac OS X was the exception among all operating systems people actually used, in that it required users to manually manage their desktop apps. That's not a big deal for veterans that are used to this, but for newbies, I can see how it can become confusing, especially after they launch too many things and their computer suddenly becomes slow due to all the swapping going on. So I don't mind the change at all.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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