Not having to worry about multiple instances of the same app should make
the developer's and tester's lives easier but certainly not the user's.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/28/2010 11:00 AM, Scott Gomez wrote:
> Why are there exceptions? According to Jobs, it's the very absence of those
> exceptions that's supposed to make the Mac more betterer. :-) And it's those
> very exceptions that makes folks like me more aggravated. Just when you
> think you know what the Mac is gonna do, it doesn't.
>
> Not being able to open multiple instances of applications in Windows and
> Linux would make my job infinitely more tedious and difficult--and for some
> situations, perhaps nigh-unto-impossible.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Chris Barker<ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yes, there are exceptions, like System Preferences and Aperture. But the
>> principle is that each programme can have open more than one window. My
>> mother drives me mad by closing windows instead of quitting.
>>
>> One thing that drives me potty with Winders is that I can open more than
>> one copy of the same application. If I have a slow computer (they're all
>> slow, these days :-)) I can end up with 3 or 4 instances of Firefox open,
>> for instance.
>>
>> Chris
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