So in essence what you are saying is that we shouldn't expect an ETC Criminal Coin DevCon because they are pointless?
Yes.
Well, no, they are not pointless: they bring in more sheeple as greater fools. But that's it.
Yeah right. Every successful field of industry have annual conferences. But yeah ETC is different. After all criminals don't need to develop shit when they can just steal it anyway.
This is not only valid for ETC. It is valid for all crypto gambling tokens, bitcoin included. The only "industry" are exchanges, managing the IOU of those tokens. The "block chain and software" of crypto is only smoke and mirrors to have your tokens on exchanges bought by greater fools.
Look at yourself: you're not buying ethereum to use it. You're buying it to sell it to a greater fool, and you're doing that on an exchange. You are not using ethereum dapps in real life. Whether there are dapps or not, doesn't change the way you handle ETH. You only buy IOU on an exchange, to sell them to bigger fools wanting those exchange IOU. You don't buy them to use DAPPs. So whatever these people do on those devcons, it has nothing to do with what you (and most people) do with ethereum, apart from the propaganda to talk newcomers into being greater fools.
This is a bit like using i-phones under table legs to stabilize the table. If that's the main use of i-phones, then any Apple conference on the newest applications and security features of iOS doesn't matter, does it ? The only thing that counts is whether the i-phone will hold your table leg without breaking.
You're not using zilch of what is talked on those conferences. Almost nobody is. It doesn't matter. It is only talk in the air, serving to attract greater fools. I'm even sure it works.
Congrats! 
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