> Applications that get closed aren't really closed ... you have to quit them.
This is the classic Mac behavior since the 1980s. Except now some apps are identical with their single window and will exit when that window is closed. So you no longer know what to expect. Sigh.
Why have this behavior ever? It used to be that apps took a while to start up. Switching to an open-but-no-window app was a lot faster than launching it from scratch. That’s not so important now that most apps start quickly.
Now the main advantage is that you can use keyboard shortcuts to make a new window in open apps (CMD-tab, CMD-n gets a new window in the previously used open app, for example)
This is the classic Mac behavior since the 1980s. Except now some apps are identical with their single window and will exit when that window is closed. So you no longer know what to expect. Sigh.
Why have this behavior ever? It used to be that apps took a while to start up. Switching to an open-but-no-window app was a lot faster than launching it from scratch. That’s not so important now that most apps start quickly.
Now the main advantage is that you can use keyboard shortcuts to make a new window in open apps (CMD-tab, CMD-n gets a new window in the previously used open app, for example)