> Splash screens aren't there for the vanity of the development team - they provide immediate visual feedback to the user that the application is loading any ne

> Splash screens aren't there for the vanity of the development team - they provide immediate visual feedback to the user that the application is loading any necessary libraries. How is that useful to a user? How many users even know what a "library" is? It might as well have a status bar announcing "Doing TECH thing 1 of 50...." It seems to me that a splash screen is just a diversion: showing the user just how much Really Important Stuff it's doing hides the fact that they're basically being told to Please Wait. You're trying to make it look exciting, when the truth is it's just getting in the way. It might as well just splash with "PLEASE WAIT" with no progress bar and no status. It has the same utility.