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And things are getting worse by the year! The registration lottery system they did was frustrating but I see no other way of handling it. But they definitely ne
by Jun8 15y ago
And things are getting worse by the year! The registration lottery system they did was frustrating but I see no other way of handling it. But they definitely need to rethink the swag thing, or I/O will become irrelevant soon (if not already so).
- tonfa 15y agoAre there any number about the percentage of attendees only interested in the gadgets and not in the talks/workshops? I remember people complain every year during registration, but then during the conf it never surfaces.
- rahim 15y agoI think that might be in part because the people that attend solely for the gadgets probably only show up to pick up the freebies, so you aren't likely to run into them at the talks. In my group of friends alone, I know of at least 10 people (non-developers with no interest to start) that got tickets last year, went up to I/O as a SF vacation, stopped by Moscone to pick up the freebies, then sold them off to pay for the trip and then some. While I, as a developer with an Android app published, didn't manage to get tickets last year nor this year.