Filed under: AppleC4, the independent Mac developers conference, is no more. First held in 2006, C4 offered a highly-intense way for developers to share technology know-how with each other, providing a bottom-up approach to improving Apple platforms from developers, back to Apple.
In an impassioned post, Jonathan Rentzsch has explained his reasons for shuttering C4. He writes that Apple's insistence on top-down control over its platforms crushes innovation and makes developers overly reliant on Apple for moving technology forward. Rentzsch explained, "By itself Section 3.3.1 wasn't enough to cause me to quit C4. I've we
