Just because you personally prefer and have bought into Apple's "do it this way because we know what's best for you" approach doesn't make maximizing wrong, inefficient, stupid, worthless, or less productive. You like it one way, others like it another.

I use HUGE screens on my Mac Pro (two of them), and I STILL prefer to maximize my windows, because I find fiddling with the mouse to constantly move, resize and reorient my application and document windows to be a complete waste of time.

If I can alt-tab (oops…"command"-tab) between open docs/apps, without reaching for the mouse to move or resize something, why should I have to have everything carefully placed, all with unnecessary mouse usage? For me, the answer is "I shouldn't".

At the very least, Apple should get off of its high horse and realize that some poeple "think different" and prefer to work in ways that make sense TO THEM, and not necessarily to the interface designers in Cupertino, and give them the OPTION of setting the behavior of the MAXIMIZE (oops.."zoom") button.

So stop being a (wrong) pedant, telling someone that their preferred method of working is "worthless".

It doesn't maximise, generally, for much the same reason that you don't get MDI on the Mac (plus, displays are getting ever-bigger, so maximising is increasingly worthless).

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