MacHack ends 20 year run

At the end of this year's ADHOC Conference, Expotech announced that this was the last conference. Due to dropping attendance, higher expenses, and fewer sponsors, the show could no longer be sustained.

The decline began in 2003 when Apple moved WWDC to the week following MacHack, which resulted in some last minute cancellations. In 2004 the name was changed to ADHOC in an attempt to attract a wider audience and the date was also changed to occur following WWDC.

MacHack had its own culture and traditions, and was as much a social & networking event as an opportunity to learn & show off neat tricks.