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Actually, the iPhone dev toolkits and prerelease announcements are pretty good at providing feature information for iOS developers. No they're not available yea

Actually, the iPhone dev toolkits and prerelease announcements are pretty good at providing feature information for iOS developers. No they're not available years in advance, but it's still more than Google. I think iOS is probably more transparent in this sense. Still, I think neither are completely open and a misappropriation of terms has just lead to 'open' being more marketing bullshit.

snotrockets 16y ago
But they only provide binaries. It's always easier to develop for a system you have the code for, even if you can't modify it. With iOS, you get more time to fix your code, but sometimes you have to speculate why the system works they way it does; with Android, the SDK drops later, giving you less time to code, but it's easier since you can find out why the system behave the way it does.