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Apple Launches WWDC 2016 Ticket Lottery

I kind of want to go.. But ~£4000 is a bit steep and that would be for 5 days on a budget. Prices should maybe be looked at; perhaps operate a sliding scale based on the size / profitability of the individual or organisation when determining prices? But then you open a huge fan of worms :mad:
 
Candlelight said:
I'm thinking they're gonna surprise everyone and call it the iPhone 10. Would match up with iOS 10 and put them back on an even release (maybe iOS x.5 for an 'S' release every second year).
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It's a lot of money for a conference.
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Visual Studio Live (3rd Party) - 4 Day - $2095
Google I|O (1st Party) - 2 Day - $900
WWDC (1st Party) - 3.5 Day (not including Keynote day or Friday afternoon) - $1600
.NET Training Classes (3rd Party) - 4/5 Days - $2595-$2935

Its actually on par for a professional level development conference.
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s15119 said:
Supply and demand.
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Incorrect. Tickets have been $1599 for years, well before they were selling out. The cost is high because its aimed at developers, not fan boys. The point of this is to learn from the people who are the experts, and to network with other professionals. $1600 is a small sum to pay for the amount of knowledge to be gained in the week.
 
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Jeremy1026 said:
Visual Studio Live (3rd Party) - 4 Day - $2095
Google I|O (1st Party) - 2 Day - $900
WWDC (1st Party) - 3.5 Day (not including Keynote day or Friday afternoon) - $1600
.NET Training Classes (3rd Party) - 4/5 Days - $2595-$2935

Its actually on par for a professional level development conference.
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Incorrect. Tickets have been $1599 for years, well before they were selling out. The cost is high because its aimed at developers, not fan boys. The point of this is to learn from the people who are the experts, and to network with other professionals. $1600 is a small sum to pay for the amount of knowledge to be gained in the week.
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Exactly. Not to mention if you're a developer for iOS and you're remotely successful with your app, $1599 is a small price to pay compared to the amount you'll make back in both revenue and knowledge on the latest and greatest Apple have to offer. As others have stated, this is not for the average consumer but companies and individuals who program for a living.
 
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I am reading the comments and... Did you guys forgot that WWDC is all about software, not hardware?
 
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Benjamin Frost said:
At WWDC, I hope they'll announce the ability to link two albums together in iTunes.
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I'm not sure what you mean, but if I'm understanding you correctly I believe you can already accomplish this with numbered discs. Or if you mean you have duplicate albums that should be merged that means that there is slight differences in naming or something else such that iTunes recognizes them as separate albums. A quick right-click > get info should allow you to edit the album metadata so that the two merge automatically.
[doublepost=1461037961][/doublepost]One thing I pray for every year is greater control over our iCloud accounts. It's absurd that things such as purchases are permanent. I know that people will whine when they accidentally permanently delete a purchase and have to re-buy it, but if the option was hidden away somewhere so that only the people looking for it would find it, that should solve the problem. I know I can 'hide' a purchase but that's not the same. I want it gone. As someone who can't stand to be unorganized, it erks me more than it should that I can't go through and clean up old purchases I no longer want. The music I listened to when I was 9 is very different from the music I listen to now! I'd rather not have 'Caramelldancing' associated with my Apple ID in 2016. The only current solution to this is to create a new account -- a solution I have utilized numerous times. This wouldn't be terrible if it weren't for the months of confused devices following the switch, and the fact that Apple does not allow for purchase transfers. While I definitely do not want all of the music and apps that I bought when I was 11 or whatever, there are a couple that I wouldn't mind having. And logging into the old account isn't a practical solution for every time an old app gets an update.

TL;DR: I just wish that Apple would allow for more freedom over our own Apple IDs. The Apple ecosystem encompasses a great deal of our life, and with the ever-growing importance our digital representation, it's more and more upsetting that Apple maintains restricts access to our own data.
 
Terrible comment in the image (// USD). The developer should rename that let priceInUSD or something equivalent. Comments are for bad developers that can't write expressive code. Who are they hiring over there?
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CFreymarc said:
Swift has come a long way since the launch of it just under two years ago. I'm still running into clients that refuse to switch over from Objective-C due to an existing code base.

From that, it is creating a split in those looking for this type of work. One are Obj-C developers going back years. The others are those that want to only work on the new stuff. If Google follows through on their adoption of it, I'm sure the compiler design will get the swift kick in the pants it deserves (pun intended.)

You working in Swift on a commercial product release? I have worked with several whom say it is not mature enough for production code.

Then there is that bizarre Forth community that goes back to the Apple ][ days and it is somehow still supported on the Mac.
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It's completely production ready for iOS. I have worked on popular apps bringing in millions in revenue and all new functionality is being written in Swift and there are several existing features coded in Swift in production. It's fantastic compared to Objective-C.
 
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Terrible comment. The developer should rename that let priceInUSD or something equivalent. Who are they hiring over there?
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It's completely production ready for iOS. I have worked on popular apps bringing in millions in revenue and all new functionality is being written in Swift and there are several existing features coded in Swift in production. It's fantastic compared to Objective-C.
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Either the voice of authority or a delusional option. I wish this could be verified.
 
t0mat0 said:
They needing more space? They really decked it out last time. More space for press for the keynotes?

http://daringfireball.net/2015/09/thoughts_and_observations_on_todays_hey_siri_event
Practise for Apple Campus 2 I guess if they wanted it.
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That venue is quite a lot bigger than the on-campus auditorium will be.
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theapplehub said:
Anyone know the font used on the logo?
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I'm leaning a custom monospaced version of San Francisco. They used a rounded version of San Francisco in the logo for a while last year before they flipped it to Myriad.
 
jonblatho said:
That venue is quite a lot bigger than the on-campus auditorium will be.
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Also this place was used by Apple to announce quite a few products and updates. It has significance for Apple (it's where it unvailed the Apple 2) maybe it's because of IOS turning 10 this year and they wanted something special or maybe they have new products (thinking along the line of Mac's).
 
Kobayagi said:
Dont forget to add why they are so cheap with storage on a 600$ device. 12GB (no, not 16) is laughable these days.
Oh and while you're at it, please mention the 5400rpm hard drives in iMacs :D
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OOOH. Good points. HAHA
 
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Either the voice of authority or a delusional option. I wish this could be verified.
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What a bizarre response. Do you really doubt that several popular apps have components written in Swift? It's been out in the wild nearly two years and is completely superior to Objective-C.

http://www.apple.com/swift/
 
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Worse thing about software announcements is that most of us have to wait months before we even get a taste of them, understandably though.

I wonder if we'll see the rumoured ultra thin MacBook Pros announced. Can't see that they've got much more than that to release, aside from iOS 10 and MacOS whatever.
 
volcomvenom said:
I thought it was like $400-500 and I thought that was expensive, but $1599 is a bit rich.
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Very expensive! I mean who would pay that much? The fact that without a lottery system it get's sold in 2 minutes time may give you the answer. People who pay for these tickets are not the ones who spend their time on MacRumors but the ones who make tons of money from their apps.
 
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bmunge said:
Terrible comment in the image (// USD). The developer should rename that let priceInUSD or something equivalent. Comments are for bad developers that can't write expressive code. Who are they hiring over there?
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let price = Price(1599.0, .USD)

Fixed! ;)
 
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