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$1,599? Understandable that they need the ~$7m in ticket sales, given that they just posted ~$11bn quarterly profits. ;)
by switch007 15y ago
$1,599? Understandable that they need the ~$7m in ticket sales, given that they just posted ~$11bn quarterly profits. ;)
- m0nastic 15y agoBased on some completely suspect math, having 1000 engineers available for the length of the conference "costs" apple ~40 million dollars in productivity: num_engineers * total_session_hours * (revenue_per_emp / 2000) where num_engineers = 1000, total_session_hours = 40, and revenue_per_emp = 2020000‡ ‡ http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple%20revenue%20per%20employee http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple%20revenue%20per%2...
- switch007 15y agoGood point. Still, the $7m is a minor dent in the overall cost, so it seems almost insignificant.
- m0nastic 15y agoI'd be almost willing to bet that because the cost is so insignificant to them, the WWDC ticket price is almost entirely meant to set a bar for the types of developers that Apple wants to attend the conference. Specifically, professional developers who make money from the Apple ecosystem, to which the ticket price is a pretty insignificant expenditure for the hopeful value that they recieve from being there.
- davidwhodge 15y agoI hear they made a rule internally that WWDC is supposed to pay it's own way. I certainly agree that it doesn't need to, but just thought you might find that interesting.