It's even worse than it appears..
Monday October 10, 2022; 5:03 PM EDT
WWDC#
  • I used to go to Apple's WWDC in the 80s and 90s.#
  • I always thought at least half the time should have devs on stage and Apple people in the audience.#
  • They had a lot of wrong ideas about developers. #
  • Of course they didn't like hearing this! ;-)#
  • One time I was invited to speak at the WWDC. My little company was leading an important new technology. Unfortunately, some people in Apple were uneasy about a dev working in this area (system scripting) so they put another dev up before me and he used up most of my time.#
  • We did give out free UserLand Frontier t-shirts to everyone who was there. So at least people had heard of us. And the Apple people who were scared of our product got their way. Also unfortunately. Everyone lost, but mostly me. Sad sad. #

Last update: Monday October 10, 2022; 10:18 PM EDT.

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