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As a non-mac user I originally didn't even know the beachball was indicating "waiting" and not actually "it crashed". Just from my coworkers grumbling.

• stuaxo 4y ago
  In the age of hard disks it could be hard to tell.
• pram 4y ago
  It makes more sense that it's 'waiting for access' when you know it was historically supposed to represent a spinning CD.