{"id":40987,"date":"2023-11-01T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40987"},"modified":"2023-11-06T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:32:52","slug":"swift-to-is-closing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/01\/swift-to-is-closing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift TO Is Closing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiftconf.to\/swift-to-is-closing-down\/\">Kyle Newsome<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.swiftconf.to\/swift-to-is-closing-down\/\">\n<p>A lot of forces seemed to work against us this year. This made organizing quite a difficult and emotional challenge at times. Unfortunately this included some mistreatment from Apple&rsquo;s Developer Relations team. Apple dangled the idea of supporting this conference. They asked for us to send our plans\/financials, then ghosted without any explanation. Despite many attempted follow ups I never heard from them again or got any closure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davedelong\/110973376066920779\">Dave DeLong<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davedelong\/110973376066920779\">\n<p>Is iOS development the only major industry where conferences are NOT sponsored by the industry leader?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/masimo-v-apple\/\">Masimo v. Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/09\/feedback-through-an-intermediary\/\">Feedback Through an Intermediary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/16\/the-final-conf-down\/\">The Final Conf-Down<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/apples-indirect-prescence-fades-from-ces\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Indirect Presence Fades From CES<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Newsome: A lot of forces seemed to work against us this year. This made organizing quite a difficult and emotional challenge at times. Unfortunately this included some mistreatment from Apple&rsquo;s Developer Relations team. Apple dangled the idea of supporting this conference. They asked for us to send our plans\/financials, then ghosted without any explanation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-11-01T20:02:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"10d0c50e-6334-4b8a-a5a2-6b2b7b125892","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-06T14:32:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AENDFDmM0S4qlomsrexJYkg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,101,738,31,1451,901],"class_list":["post-40987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-conference","tag-ios","tag-sunset","tag-swift-programming-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41005,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987\/revisions\/41005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}