OS X Lion: Macs' beginner-friendly days are over

Re:OS X Lion: Macs' beginner-friendly days are over by kyleslattery on Monday July 25, 2011 @05:19PM (#2804697)

Lion actually adds some APIs so developers can make their apps work like iOS apps. If the developer allows, the OS can kill their app at any time when it's in the background. More info here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...

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Re:OS X Lion: Macs' beginner-friendly days are over by bjtitus on Monday July 25, 2011 @05:38PM (#2804788)

Thanks for the info! Definitely did not know this was a new feature. It just seemed to me like applications doing this were checking for window closed events, finishing up any work, and then closing as soon as possible. I hope more Mac OS developers take advantage of this but I fear it will be seldom used.

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Re:OS X Lion: Macs' beginner-friendly days are over by astral303 on Monday July 25, 2011 @05:54PM (#2804859)

Nothing like a little encouragement for adopting this feature as a condition of being accepted in the Mac App Store to drive system feature adoption.

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