@daringfireball@mastodon.social Regarding Apple paying for travel to their events: I attended WWDC in 2002, and Apple payed for my hotel and maybe my travel. This was because I was developing file system drivers for Mac OS X, which was quite new at the time, and they wanted me to attend. My university didn’t want to foot the whole bill, so Apple decided to pay. The file system people obviously had enough influence then. The PR people presumably has much more influence.