I would struggle to get many things done if not for that one particular Apple engineer and their forum posts.
Re:On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
by saagarjha on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:32PM
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We all would. Eskimo is a treasure and I have no idea how he does what he does.
Current situation is, money is coming in. Stock market still loves apple. So for them it seems fine.
Re:On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
by Polylactic_acid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:03AM
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Basically. What are you going to do? Not release your app on apple devices? No, you will do whatever it takes to work it out yourself.
It might even be in their interests to drive away all but the most dedicated developers. After all, they have more apps than they'll ever need, the problem is always quality.
> the problem is always quality
But writing quality apps requires quality API documentation. I don't know how developers fumbling around in the dark can result in quality apps.
Being "dedicated" to Apple platforms is not the same as being dedicated to quality.
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/663858
Why in the world is this a random undiscoverable post in the (terribly designed) developer discussion forums rather than a Technical Note in the documentation? It would have been a TN in the past. In fact that same engineer wrote a number of old Apple TNs.
It's clear even to some within Apple that there's a need for more and better documentation, but some pointy haired boss in upper management seems to think the current situation is fine.