We need to document macOS
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We need to document macOS
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Re: We need to document macOS
#2You and me we both RTFM, but the population at large? Not so much. When computers were in their early days more of the people that used them were willing and even interested to learn a lot about what was going on. Now the computer is a tool used by most people to do specific tasks. Just like I don't care to learn how to fix my car they don't want to learn how to troubleshoot software nor hardware problems with their computers.
So it might not make economical sense for Apple to spend any significant amount of money on employing technical writers.
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#9I find most answers I need on Stackexchange. However there are books like "Mac OS The Missing Manual", I always wondered if anyone bought them and what they actually contained.
MacOS is simple enough to grasp for most people at first use. More advanced usage is documented, not in one location but scattered over the internet. Google made that not matter anymore.
In addition, most documentation you would need today is for the products you install I guess, not macOS. But again, it really doesn't matter much with Google finding anything you search.
My experience with (large) documentation projects. They are outdated almost always. Q&A style works much better nowadays.
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#10When it's documented it cannot be changed as easily, so it's often better to not document everything in detail.