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My guess is they’re realized documentation is a huge cost center and even their own technical writers are overburdened by the churn of deprecating APIs and chan
by tmpz22 6y ago
My guess is they’re realized documentation is a huge cost center and even their own technical writers are overburdened by the churn of deprecating APIs and changing best practices. It’s worse then the JavaScript community.
- psahgal 6y agoI find this business decision fascinating because a good portion of their App Store revenue comes from developers. One would THINK developer relations would be a priority at Apple, but it's pretty clear that's not the case. It was one of things that I found unbelievable when switching from Android to iOS development. The developer experience is just so much WORSE on iOS. Sometimes, it's as if Apple is actively trying to annoy developers.
- chungus_khan 6y agoThey have such a strong market presence and so much power, they don't have to care for the moment because developers will come to the platform anyway.
- jonhendry18 6y ago"documentation is a huge cost center" It's a tiny cost center, in the grand scheme of things. As it is they probably spend less than they spend cleaning the glass at Apple Park.
- dragonwriter 6y agoFor API documentation, if you can specify what you intend to build well enough to build it and validate that you have built even approximately what you intended to build, documentation shouldn't be much more work.