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    3) The green maximize button still doesn't maximize.

This isn't and has never been a "maximize" button. It's supposed to zoom the window to fit the content as best it can without scrolling. It's up to the developer to implement it properly with their own logic.

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But very, very few apps ever get it right, and most people seem to just want minimize and maximize.

Have you ever used a 30" display? Maximizing windows does not make a whole lot of sense there, especially considering the difference in window contents on Windows vs Mac (ie. self-contained menubar, etc).

What proportion of OSX users use 30" displays?

Hell, what proportion of them use desktop-variety computers?

1440x900 screen, absolutely can’t stand maximized windows – hate them, actually.

It's still not an argument to optimise OSX for the use case of 30" monitors though.

27" iMac is pretty popular

That's where the newer Microsoft Windows method of maximizing into 1/2 the screen works well. I'd prefer if it were customizable to work in thirds, though.

I maintain that people think of multi-windowed UI in terms of windows first. Resizing a window to fit the content makes less sense than resizing the content to fit the window. People also seem to get really upset when UI interaction isn't consistent, and the Mac approach means that it varies wildly between apps.

You can drag a window to a corner to get it to fill a quarter screen. Kind of hard to hit the lower corners (it is not the screen corner but the top of the taskbar).

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