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by wil_shipley 4575 days ago
We had amazing developer advocates back then. Jim Black (he's now at Nvidia), for instance, used to actually pick us up at the airport when we'd fly into town.

Nowadays I don't actually have an official developer's advocate at Apple. The last two people I had quit and they weren't replaced. Luckily I still have people from the old days I can e-mail if needed, but I wish there were official channels.

On the other hand, the number of Cocoa developers has gone from about 80 to like 80,000, so I can see why Apple can't assign each one a person.