I wonder what portion of users doesn't even know that you can/should quit mac application when you no longer use them. I frequently see people with dozens of active applications in their dock.
This is the converse of the situation on Android. I know many people who close android apps (by swiping them away in the app switcher) because they are afraid they will run in the background.
Should users quit running applications? Given a generally large amount of memory available (due to its low cost), and OS application paging, I'm not so sure.
The only reason I ever quit a running application on any modern OS is due to old habits that have died hard and a tired model of thinking ("I'm probably low on memory so I should kill this process"), or because the process itself is misbehaving. Correctly-behaving applications generally don't need to be terminated.
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I wonder what portion of users doesn't even know that you can/should quit mac application when you no longer use them. I frequently see people with dozens of active applications in their dock.
This is the converse of the situation on Android. I know many people who close android apps (by swiping them away in the app switcher) because they are afraid they will run in the background.
Should users quit running applications? Given a generally large amount of memory available (due to its low cost), and OS application paging, I'm not so sure.
The only reason I ever quit a running application on any modern OS is due to old habits that have died hard and a tired model of thinking ("I'm probably low on memory so I should kill this process"), or because the process itself is misbehaving. Correctly-behaving applications generally don't need to be terminated.