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WWDC sold out in ten hours.
- koko775 16y agoAaaaaagh! :( Guess I'm not going after all.
- iqster 16y agoDamnit ... I really wanted to go but 1599 on my own dime was a bit too steep. I thought I'd sleep on it but it is like they say: you snooze you lose. Oh well .. I managed to go to PyCon and will hopefully be at Google IO.
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- paradox95 16y agoI hope you got your ticket for Google I/O already. It sold out in less than an hour this year. (I think they are still doing the competitions so if your going that route then "good luck!")
- pcolton 16y agoStartup idea: allow people to share their conference badges during unused days (or during any non-use times). I often can't stay an entire conference, and usually ditch my badge. For a sold out show, would be nice to hand it to someone else. "The AirBnB of Conference Badges" I'm sure this goes against the badge policies, however.
- OstiaAntica 16y agoThis would be a cool feature for lanyrd.com
- seanalltogether 16y agoThe last wwdc i went to experienced a sharp decline in population after the keynote.
- hamedh 16y agothat's kind of sad. you'd think people will stick around to learn stuff, not just to say they attended the keynote
- silencio 16y agoI don't know when the person you replied to last went, but I went to every WWDC since 2007 and the sessions have only gotten more and more packed and lab time for some popular topics even harder to come across. Granted there's always unpopular/niche sessions with half empty rooms, but I also went to sessions that were so packed all the available floor space that wasn't a fire hazard was occupied. I understand the grumbling at the idiots that buy a $1600 ticket to watch the keynote, but I don't think there's that many people that truly impulse buy such a thing just to see the damn keynote. I've skipped out on half the keynotes so far to sleep in and eat breakfast and show up in time for the SOTUs in the afternoon instead, which are much more informational.
- Skroob 16y agoHow long ago was this? I was there in 2008 and 2010 and both years were packed to the rafters all week long.
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- DerekL 16y agoApple lets the press attend the keynote, but not the rest of the conference. Maybe that explains the decline.
- dangero 16y agoYeah this is something that happens a lot at WWDC. Every year Apple threatens to check IDs at the door, but they never do that I have seen besides at registration.
- chc 16y agoThis is almost universally against convention rules. If it became popular, the conference organizers would just start making good on their threats and you'd see your name cursed across the Internet for getting your users' badges taken away.
- kin 16y agoI find the title kind of exaggerated considering Google I/O sold out in less than an hour.
- mcantelon 16y agoAnd JSConf in ~40 minutes.
- jarek 16y agoConcerts routinely sell out in minutes so Apple has nothing on this!
- ramanujam 16y agoGoogle I/O got sold out because every body who got the ticket knew that they are going to get a latest android phone which is priced higher than the ticket price! Definitely a big motivational incentive to hit the buy button. Not true for all attendees but probably for a good percentage.
- mrinterweb 16y agoTo say that attendees know they will be getting the latest Android phone is a little presumptuous. That'd be like saying if I wanted a new car, all I need to do is be an audience member on Oprah.
- rbarooah 16y agoHave all audience members on Oprah for the past 3 years been given cars?
- travisjeffery 16y agoThe title is just a statement of how long it took to sell out, "WWDC sold out in ten hours." — tell me where the exaggeration is in that sentence.
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- dangero 16y agoWow. I guess I'll be at home this year crying myself to sleep. The quickness at which this sold out prompts a few questions: 1. I guess only small development houses are going this year because most big companies can't get purchasing approved that fast. I know mine wasn't able to. 2. Is it time for Apple to consider a format to allow more people to attend? Their platform has grown 10x in 5 years, but the conference is still in the same facility. 3. Did Apple release fewer tickets this year to hold more tickets for their partners? I know last year, the conference sold out quick, and that didn't allow big companies time to react. I question if even Apple's purchasing department could have made a purchase this quick if they were invited to attend such a popular conference. 4. Does this mean that people are now going to be scalping WWDC tickets? Their value is clearly much more than $1600.
- ecuzzillo 16y agoIt seems to me that most of the innovation doesn't come from big companies anyway, so why should Apple give them precedence for any seats?
- inaequitas 16y agoMy knee-jerk reaction would be to agree, but I think it's also a matter of who can be helped the most. Smaller teams might not be able to afford extensive training from The Big Nerd Ranch or other outfits as much as larger corps might. So WWDC is certainly most useful to indie developers, but that doesn't mean Apple needs to market it expressly so.
- whatusername 16y agoThe games pushing the graphics limits of the ios hardware mainly game from big dev houses (Think ID, Activision, etc) The software pushing the limits of OSX mainly comes from big software house (Think Adobe or VMWare) Despite it's success selling it's own software Apple would still have some massive problems if either Microsoft or Adobe announced that they were no longer developing for the Mac.
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- narsil 16y agoAccording to http://gigaom.com/apple/wwdc-2011-sells-out-in-less-than-one-day/ http://gigaom.com/apple/wwdc-2011-sells-out-in-less-than-one... "WWDC 2010 took eight days to sell out entirely". That's pretty impressive assuming the same number of tickets (5000) were sold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Worldwide_Developers_Conference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Worldwide_Developers_Conf... mentions the number of tickets being capped at 5000 for the past 2 years.
- wallflower 16y agoSince the session videos will be online after the conference for registered Apple developers (that's what they did last year - setting a new Google I/O-pressured precedent), I think that leaves the sessions you really want to go to, Labs, networking, socializing. The sessions. All of them are top-notch. Learn how to write code like an Apple engineer or think like one. They all know how to present and they all are happy to be there. The Labs are unbelievable. You come with your thorniest bug/problem to the appropriate section and an Apple engineer will sit down with you to figure it out. You might have to wait a while but they will bring in other team members, if you have a particularly thorny issue. When it comes to networking/socializing - just waiting in line for sessions/talking to people next to me - I met people who had written top-selling iPad/iPhone and/or well-known apps. Oh, and partying. That is almost like networking but with full bar service. Good luck and congratulations to those going, it's like no other technical conference.
- ghurlman 16y agoI/O Pressured? PDC/MIX has been doing this for a few years now...
- wallflower 16y agoPerhaps they helped push Apple that way but as someone who went to WWDC10 with the expectation that I would unable to see the content otherwise as the videos were restricted to attendees (and or those who had an ADC Select/Premier account) it was kind of a shock they went that way finally. Especially because it was announced barely after the conference had exponentially faded from our memories. Google I/O is pushing the boundaries of free again - live streaming to locally-organized developer parties in select Worldwide locations of major sessions and the keynotes. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-io-extends-virtually-around.html http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-io-extends-vir...
- bep 16y agoLike PDC?
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- danest 16y agoI would really love to go to one of these now that I am starting iOS in one of my courses. I wish Apple had student tickets for this conference. :(
- dooq 16y agoApple used to offer student scholarships to WWDC (I got one back in 2003). It looks like they no longer do that though (as of just this year).
- rendezvouscp 16y agoThe FAQ[1] says that “there will be a WWDC Student Scholarship.” [1] https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/faq/ https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/faq/
- xuki 16y agoI got scholarship on 2008 and 2010, i expect them to offer the same thing this year, just be patient and wait for a few days until the details come out =)
- wtn 16y agoThe people at WWDC used to be cool. The last couple of years they've been drowned out by masses of people trying to cash in on iOS fads. A lot of companies didn't even send their programmers last year—they sent their managers instead. The idiot managers don't even know WTF is going on. These people aren't worth talking to.
- dschobel 16y agos/iOS fads/apple's business plan for the foreseeable future/ and you nailed it.
- gyardley 16y agoWitnessing a Steve Jobs keynote in person appeals to a lot more people than chatting at one of Apple's developer labs. That plus the usual large-company conference boondoggle explains why WWDC has a lot of non-developer attendees. To make the conference 100% developers, either Apple has to get a lot less cool or the keynote needs to be moved out. Put the thing in Pac Bell Park and sell keynote-only tickets, and you'll get what you want.
- blinder2451 16y agoI bought all the tickets to sell on StubHub.com!
- atrain34 16y agothe only way to know about and get tickets in time is twitter. booo apple.
- pohl 16y agoI saw them go on sale this morning in my rss reader, and bought one right away. Tweetlessly. I've always wanted to attend, but never have been able to.
- Skroob 16y agoI got an email at 11:34am eastern time from Apple about WWDC. Plenty of time.
- steipete 16y agoOne more reason to use Twitter!
- mechanical_fish 16y agoSo what's the second biggest Mac OS/iOS developer conference?
- wallflower 16y agoI've only heard good things about their Austin edition. WHEN: September 11-14, 2011 WHERE: Denver, CO http://www.360idev.com/ http://www.360idev.com/ For Mac: http://nsconference.com/ http://nsconference.com/ Props for NSConf: http://mattgemmell.com/2009/05/01/nsconference-2009 http://mattgemmell.com/2009/05/01/nsconference-2009
- zdw 16y agoNSConference USA is merging with MacTech Conference: http://www.mactech.com/conference/nsconference http://www.mactech.com/conference/nsconference Last year's conference was fantastic. Has IT and Dev tracks. Highly recommended.
- chicagobob 16y ago#import "disclosure.h" I help run SecondConf, feel free to ask if you have any questions. But, we're on the opposite end of the spectrum. We intentionally keep it small, so everyone can have a chance to talk with everyone else. We just announced our date for this year (9/23-25) and more details will be coming soon: http://www.secondconf.com/ http://www.secondconf.com/ if you're interested, you should follow @secondconf on twitter. (minor edit to fix typo and add twitter info)
- frankus 16y agoIf you happened to have added a ticket in your cart on store.apple.com it might very well still be there (and be able to be purchased) after the conference is sold out. That's how I got in last year after slow management approval nearly ruined it for me. I lobbied extra hard for quick management approval (new company) this year. I'll see some of you there :)
- ranebo 16y agoThanks for this, I fortunately added the ticket to my cart on my phone late last night (I'm in Australia) and woke up this morning to the sellout. Seems like check out all went well. Now processing so hopefully I'll be able to repay you with a drink there.
- ranebo 16y agoJust an update for anyone still reading this. Apple just rang me today to refund my money, they received the order after all tickets had already been allocated :-(.
- mediocrepanda 16y agoThanks for a great tip. I was waiting on wife approval, because I need to make sure it didn't conflict with our planned vacation. I might be unstuck now.
- gaiusparx 16y agoI hope Apple will repeat the same event at a venue in Asia Pacific to cater for the other half of the world. Maybe at Sydney, Shanghai, HongKong or Singapore.