I’ve been really enjoying the video interview that Ars Technica made from WWDC talking with various developers that were there. Let’s face it. Text and even audio is missing a special something when it comes to some interviews. However, one interview confused the heck out of me. In particular, Austin Sarner and John Casasanta talk about bridging the recent gap.
We want to bring everyone back together. And we want to create this sense of community again.
They talk about it and how they used their recent WWDC party as a measure to achieve those ends. That sounds all well and good, but let’s roll back the tape to the “I Like Olives” website they referred to (after all, it’s supposed to be part of their campaign). In particular, let’s revisit the first post.
And speaking of the whole “Delicious Generation” thing, we’ve taken Paul Kafasis’ narcissistic, pessimistic, manipulative, envy-driven rant and turned his negative “flashy but frivolous apps” meaning into a positive one.
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As we’re gearing up for this new project, we’re also bracing for impact as we wait on people like Erik Barzeski to send us a friendly email, exchange emails, write a positive review, then come full circle and write a “me-too” post when hating on our software becomes the popular thing. Or better yet, maybe we’ll get a Paul Kafasis situation where he goes on a tirade about our software, only to later act like he was never the aggressor. Maybe we could even get a Gruber post fueled with another extremely well thought out bit of logic about selling beta software or perhaps even a completely uninformed, highly speculative statement about our sales figures and what cuts we’re giving to people.
This is how they’re trying to “bring everyone back together”? They want to call people out by name and attack them. Forgive me for perhaps being one of the old fuddy duddies, but I really don’t see that as an honest attempt at bridging the divide. It sounds like someone out for revenge. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that they thought better of what they initially wrote and have since changed their tune, but considering the post is still there, intact with the hating, I somehow doubt it.
I do have to say though that I had to giggle at Casasanta’s choice of attire (a Daring Fireball T-shirt).
