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<blockquote data-quote="OliverN" data-source="post: 1886683" data-attributes="member: 408282">I would still say the answer is in #6. Some apps just have useful 'passive' functionality and they're nice to always have running in the background. This goes for apps like mail/messenger clients that show notifications for new messages while running and game clients that keep other software updated while running.For these cases, automating launch without having to close multiple windows at startup can be appealing. Perhaps your needs are different, but the reasoning here doesn't seem very exotic to me. It also seems to me that the option would exist in settings precisely because some users have this need.I'm told elsewhere that the quoted bit of help menu is actually addressing samba and webdav servers connected through the Finder – which further supports my suspicion that Mail.app popping up despite being 'Hidden' is simply a bit of an oversight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OliverN, post: 1886683, member: 408282"] I would still say the answer is in #6. Some apps just have useful 'passive' functionality and they're nice to always have running in the background. This goes for apps like mail/messenger clients that show notifications for new messages while running and game clients that keep other software updated while running. For these cases, automating launch without having to close multiple windows at startup can be appealing. Perhaps your needs are different, but the reasoning here doesn't seem very exotic to me. It also seems to me that the option would exist in settings precisely because some users have this need. I'm told elsewhere that the quoted bit of help menu is actually addressing samba and webdav servers connected through the Finder – which further supports my suspicion that Mail.app popping up despite being 'Hidden' is simply a bit of an oversight. [/QUOTE]

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