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>In the bigger picture Apple aren't really documenting anything for their new toys, This should not come as a surprise, it has always been Apple's default stan
by ur-whale 6y ago
>In the bigger picture Apple aren't really documenting anything for their new toys,
This should not come as a surprise, it has always been Apple's default stance.
Apple has been, is, and will very likely always be a closed ecosystem.
They might sometimes appear or pretend to be open, but it's essentially good PR/marketing (e.g. stash Unix underneath a closed-source stack, call yourself open source and proceed to lure all the open source devs to the platform).
- Someone 6y agoI think it’s more a sign of the times than Apple being Apple that they don’t tell you what hardware you buy when you buy one of their systems or how it is connected. Television manuals used to contain hardware schematics, car manuals used to be way more detailed, etc. Apple also had detailed info on their hardware. The Apple II reference manual had schematics, mapped it to the PCB, described what each part did, described 6502 assembly and had an assembly listing of the monitor ROM. The only thing missing to build a copy, I think, was an assembly listing of the Basic interpreter. The phone book edition of Inside Macintosh also had info on the hardware, but a lot less of it.
- userbinator 6y agoThe keyword being had, but Apple has always been on the more closed side --- Inside Macintosh was far more pretty but overall less informative than the corresponding IBM PC Technical Reference books.
- noizejoy 6y agoAnd Apple is still making Macs, while IBM gave up making PCs quite a while ago. Who would have predicted that in the mid 90s?
- jitl 6y agoThe Apple II was useless on arrival unless you could program it yourself. The iPhone is useful for 99% of customers while providing no on-device programming. Weird analogy.