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San Jose, not San Francisco. That's quite a change.
by drfuchs 10y ago
San Jose, not San Francisco. That's quite a change.
- adamnemecek 10y agoI'm guessing it might be bigger as a result.
- aalfson 10y agoIt will be the thinnest, lightest, most powerful WWDC ever made.
- bhaavan 10y agoThere shall also not be a keynote. Courage.
- k-mcgrady 10y agoSupposedly the venue holds roughly the same number of people. The benefit for Apple is that their engineers don't need a full day away to come to the conference so they'll be able to send more engineers.
- pawadu 10y agobut if they send more engineers then they would need a larger venue, wouldn't they?
- masklinn 10y agoThe number of engineers is dwarfed by the number of attendees so not really. And they can rotate more engineers e.g. have people there for half a day, it's not wasted when it's a 5mn trip from HQ versus an hour drive to SF.
- ropiku 10y agoSadly looks like not. Both John Gruber and iMore spoke to Apple and it's not a bigger venue: > I asked whether the move to San Jose changed the number of people who’d be able to attend. Schiller said it did not — attendance will be about the same.
- bontoJR 10y agoI guess their conclusion is that this is the maximum size for the goal they want to achieve. Can it be bigger without having an impact on the quality of the event?
- allwein 10y agoThe venue itself is larger in square footage, roughly 550,000 compared to Moscone's 300,000. It also has a larger capacity for people and seating. That said, actual attendee count is likely to remain at around 5,000 people (per Gruber and iMore). The extra space does allow for more Apple engineers to attend and be present for labs, etc. Also keep in mind that last year they held the keynote in the Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco in order to support the extra amount of press, etc. that attends just the keynote. The San Jose center will be able to accommodate that extra amount of people who then disappear after the first 3 hours. So conclusion, yes, bigger venue, but they aren't using it to increase attendee count.
- analogmemory 10y agoPart of Moscone will be under construction. During the convention. I'm sure i'll be back there next year. Moscone North and South will be closed April-Auguest 2017. Moscone West will remain open and is fully booked. http://www.mosconeexpansion.com/faq http://www.mosconeexpansion.com/faq