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And you don&#8217;t become a standard for charging for features like copy paste. Anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>Quicktime development is a whole different nightmare. There are around 2,500 functions. Countless API options. Countless related technologies, and not a single introduction that would make any sense, or compile for that matter. Of course, it&#8217;s all there. And &#8216;all&#8217; is quet literally. Examples that crash XCode. Examples that only run on OS9. Introductions of codes with code snippets where it takes allot of guessing, which era this was valid in.<\/p>\n<p>Most open software projects have much better online documentation than Apple&#8217;s Quicktime. It&#8217;s a mess. A mess with a messy history. Once things work they might be great. It also probably great if you work for Apple have access at the internal communication paths. But for a 3rd party developer it&#8217;s hard to get into this. 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