For many in the Apple residential district , high spot have often been keynote by Steve Jobs at Macworld Expo or Apple ’s own Worldwide Developer Conference . For those on the ontogenesis side of the community , however , one of the most pop Apple - related annual events has been the annual C4 group discussion in Chicago . sorry intelligence , then , as conference organizer Jonathan “ Wolf ” Rentzsch announcedin a blog post on Wednesdaythat C4 has reached the closing of its run .
Rentzsch cites Apple ’s late alteration of subdivision 3.3.1 of its iPhone developer concord — the controversial clause that prohibits the manipulation of some tools and programming languages for creating iPhone program — as the straw that breach the camel ’s back . Specifically , he points to the lack of developer scandalisation about the change , saying “ unlike late publication such as the senseless iPhone SDK NDA , the majority of the community is n’t devil by 3.3.1 . ”
Despite expressing his dashing hopes over the end of the conference , NetNewsWire developer Brent Simmons produce the enquiry of whether or not Section 3.3.1 , which only governs evolution for the iPhone , should affect a gathering that was principally centered around growing for the Mac .
“ There is no App Store for Macs , and no department 3.3.1 for Macs,”wrote Simmons in a blog postal service . “ C4 began as a Mac conference , and it could remain a Mac conference . I ’ve been to every single one , and I ’d love to go again . They ’re been hugely worthful to me . ”
As someone who is n’t a software program developer but who still attended C4 for three days , I can say the conference will be sorely missed . It was a rare chance for sovereign Mac developers and enthusiasts to gather and assemble , exchange ideas , and hear about all sorts of interesting technical topics . Its small size of it and independency from Apple ( though several Apple employees give ear ) gift an interesting and alone linear perspective that you would n’t necessarily get at WWDC or elsewhere . And as a author in the Mac community , I relished the chance to visit nerve - to - boldness with developers and learn a little bit about what go on under the hood of some of our best-loved software .
In a twelvemonth which has already seen the first Apple - less Macworld Expo , the dying of C4 is an another inauspicious blow to the community .