C4 was billed as a Mac indie conference, but at its core C4 was a computer science conference.
I believed the best way to move software forward was to inform Apple programmers about better ways to build software — to infect the best top-downer minds with fertile discontent.
My hope was that developers would care primarily about user experience yet also be passionate about utilizing lingual and tooling advances.
C4 was my attempt to push on the Apple community from the bottom-up.
With that background in place, I hope you can understand how Section 3.3.1 has broken my spirit.
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With resistance to Section 3.3.1 so scattershot and meek, it’s become clear that I haven’t made the impact I wanted with C4. It’s also clear my interests and the Apple programming community’s interests are farther apart than I had hoped.
This is a huge loss to the Apple developer community.
I don’t think canceling C4 is the right move. Giving up doesn’t do anything to help the problem that Section 3.3.1 embodies. It feels like there are some things going on behind the scenes here.