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msie 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse...

I remember the good old days when Apple was desperate for developers and produced great documentation and there were a lot of great 3rd-party books too. You can't just give out awards in hopes that someone will make that great app.

pstuart 4 months ago [–]

Yeah, the Inside Macintosh guides were epic.

msie 4 months ago | [–]

And it's not like Apple can't spend several million to bring back that first class documentation. People actually spent money on those books too.

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