Accoring to the support page, Cmd - W is used to close the front window. Cmd - Q is to close the app. What is the difference and in which scenario would I want to use Cmd - W? It basically closes the app, but doesn't really close it (it stays in the bar and is displayed active). It's not a function to minimize the app like in windows, it seems to to kill the open window and put the rest to a (useless, imho) sleep, instead of just killing it as a whole.
EDIT: Ok, the excepted behaviour isn't that one would close the app by using Cmd - W. Let's ask more specific: If I close the last tab of google chrome by pressing Cmd -W, why doesn't the browser decide to "shutdown"? What use is a browser running without a window, and when you open a new window, you only get to the start-page?
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The concept that you are missing is that on Mac OS closing a window does not lead by default to closing the app as well. For example, I might open two projects in Xcode at the same time, and once I am done with one of them I can close its window, but the app itself would still be running.
So, Cmd+w closes active window, and Cmd+q quits the app.
