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I used to see the "spinning beachball of death" scenario every now and then, but on Lion and a 2011 Macbook Air I haven't once. Occasionally third party applica

I used to see the "spinning beachball of death" scenario every now and then, but on Lion and a 2011 Macbook Air I haven't once. Occasionally third party applications will exit and there will be a "____ has quit unexpectedly" message with an option to relaunch. Details are available in logfiles; anyone who has a use for those details most likely knows where to find them. The end user can't do anything with memory addresses, etc. so it makes sense that they don't seem them.

kapnobatairza 14y ago
Of course, Apple provides the details for those who care to look, just that it hides the information from the everyday user who doesn't want to. This is just a personal opinion, but just failing is probably less scary to the everyday user than being immediately presented with a bunch of error messages/a blue screen error message - even though they might mean the exactly the same thing.