Wish I could afford this but flight, hotel and this ticket is pretty crazy. Maybe if my game makes it big I'll be there next year.
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Apple Offering Some Developers Second Chance to Buy Unclaimed WWDC Tickets
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Just like these three years "2008,2009,2010" where an example of what happened on 2011, right?
My point is, anything is possible and nothing is set on stone when it comes to Apple. They may do same thing as they did with the original iPhone. Announce this whatever they may call it months before it's release.
Exactly. Great hw-upgrades, but nothing seriously new like the first Macbook, iPod, iPhone or iPad.
That is not to say WWDC isn't a great event. It's just not THE event where Apple can be expected to introduce a new product categorie like the iWatch.
Yep, I'm a dev. Was at WWDC last year. It was well worth the time and money and I'm fully with you on the what the real value is of the event.
I attended last year and definitely was eager to also go again this year.
When Apple announced how to get the *opportunity* to purchase a ticket, I clicked the one or two buttons needed to sign up before checking if I could make travel arrangements (being able to take the time off, finding an affordable flight, hotel, etc). Since I expected the likelihood of winning to be pretty low, I didn't start checking until I got the Apple confirmation that I could indeed purchase a ticked.
I than turned out that I simply couldn't make/affort to go this year... not happy with that myself but I'm pretty sure that the person(s) who now get a 2nd change to decide to purchase won't mind..
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I was not selected to buy a WWDC ticket during the lottery; however, yesterday I got a call from Apple saying that they did have a ticket for me. I was told that I'd receive an email by 5pm with a link to purchase the ticket. I was told I'd only have 24 hours to buy the ticket. Fast forward to now, 7:30am the next day (eastern time) and no email yet.
Anyone have any advice?
I'm ready to buy my ticket, but I need the darned email!!
Anyone have any advice?
I'm ready to buy my ticket, but I need the darned email!!
If you are using gmail, then check your junk folder -- that is where I found my invitation. Otherwise, give them a call (512)-674-2000. Have your apple developer ID handy.
The context where I made the original statement ("Apple announcing anything seriously new at WWDC is highly unlike Apple") was iWatch.
Even though some people here rightfully claim that Apple has announced many great new products at WWDC, i doesn't change the fact that all of these where upgrades or new versions of existing product categories.
Truly new products always got their own event making sure there is no distractions. Clearly without Steve, some things might change but I think this is so basic to how Apple does marketing, that I would be very surprised if something like iWatch or an iTV would be introduced at WWDC. Not good or bad, just my basic feeling on how Apple ticks.
Any reason I wouldn't call the 1-800 apple number? This random number seems weird....
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I called the 1-800 number and they just redirect me to the developer number, and they are closed on the weekend. I tried the 512 number above and I get a message that they are closed on the weekend....Frustrating!
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If they sell out in minutes, why do they have to call and reach out as noted in the post?
Last year it sold out in under 1 minute if I remember correctly. This year, Apple switched to a lottery-based system to be more fair. The winners of the lottery were the only ones who could buy the tickets. Some of them didn't for various reasons (travel, job, etc). So the remaining tickets were now put back into the lottery and they drew again.
The fact that they are reaching out to more people means nothing about the popularity of the event. All it means is that the original winners could not buy a ticket for one reason or another.
Apparently he thinks having an employer pay for a work-related expense is something to be ashamed of
3rd attempt at posting on glitchy mac site about how glitchy your stuff is
I just finished taking about 30 minutes fully explaining my point on mac. I was signed in went to submit reply and messaged error and my whole post is gone.
I think that pretty much sums up what Apple is currently giving you for your dollar. Your dollar spent in on apple gets you NOTHING.
As a developer, Apple is bat **** crazy thinking I'm going to spend 1599 to go out to see this conference. Not only could they not give away, even paying for my room and flight I would still not attend. As someone who makes just over $100 an hour to work my time is way too valuable to watch Apple have a bunch of buffoons show me incremental upgrades, and very little real life knowledge going forward. The fact that there are empty tickets is just an inclination there's no value to this Conference at all. If the remaining tickets were a low amount, after previous taking a list of developers, they'd either just Eat It, or do a quick hand out. The problem is they called up a ton of these developers and got a bunch of No not interested. So much too the point, that this conference would have been empty. The fact that this macrumors only had 34 comments and most of these people are even dying to go is a really bad sign. I mean stand back and think how many people are on this forum and how many just really don't care.
As someone who was super long apple for most of my equity from 520 to 400 range increase, and a developer this company is just unfortunately run by a complete moron.
He has not delivered on anything
Lets first talk about the rumors
2 years ago + 4k tv Box TV and I watch coming.
Oh the glorious 4k hand action TV before there was already that. Apple was going to control your living room and electronic experience tying together everything you use. Insert incremental upgrades to the apple tv as literally every other likewise device improves at fasters pace.
the watch
here's where we were going with is at the end of 2012. When corning and Apple hooked up for the super flexible glass and with patents we currently had and ready available technology going to be here in under 6 months. I understand this isn't from oct, nov 2012 but I promise you this is where the concepts to it were going. And the direction the device was supposed to take...
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/02/iwatch-concept-holographic-display.html
and here we are now
http://toddham.com/blog/iwatch-concept/
Ok cool its way smaller and is gonna do way less and cost the same. And almost going to be totally revolved around siri. That's great cuz Siri is as ****ing bad as that "type to talk" software my dad tried to use in the early 1990s. Its so unbelievably pathetic how little siri can help. The only thing she really does is text people when you're driving. Which in most states you're not supposed to be doing already. SWEEEEEEEEEETTTTT
Ipad-Well lets see we printed out tons of 9.7's kept doing upgrades and less than 1/4 of the of consumers know theres ****ing 6 iPads already. And you've clearly over printed 9.7's so we'll be seeing old versions of iPads all liberally kinda marked the same. Which is super cool.
Iphone-kept steadily improving and just dropped the ball on this device upgrade. The 5s which i currently own is 100% worst of a phone then the 5. But how is that possible?
My battery is significantly weaker in my 5s then my 5...I've read about tons of people having this same problem. It doesn't literally even compare some how I just can't get 4 hours out of my device. I personally think iOS 7 is better than 6 and actually quite an improvement. Here's my complaint other than the battery what the hell happened to my glass. My phone which has never been dropped has knife like scratches that are super deep. I don't know about how frequently it scratches but the scratches in my last phone never bothered me when viewing. The scratches from literally putting it my pocket walking around general wear...are already so bad I want to get rid of it. This is one of those things where I know Mr. Tim Cook did is top like 24 hour check on the glass where as Jobs would have put way more. And in result I have a phone that might not break a lil bit more but deep scratches to sand like its butter. Which of the 2 is more logical Mr. Cook?
Macs-so when I first started using os x my 1st thought was omg this amazing. And it was win 95 i always thought was the best overall software but is easily topped by handful of os x versions. Then comes mavericks the 1st version of Apple software that has glitches, pop ups, and irregularities thru out. This is literally in software i believe the biggest letdown since microsoft millennium. Again Tim cook has literally 0 idea i'm sure that this software is significantly worst. I mean it looks a little prettier at 1st and he doesn't actually deal with all this stuff to know.
The new mac pros are also some of the worst value dollar computers i've literally ever seen put out. I literally can't imagine why someone would buy other than to show off. Its just I didn't know the $15,000 trash cash can could get you laid.
Ipod-dead
So in closing good luck selling $1600 tickets because you're going to have a way harder time then you guys think. A lot of your stuff has sucked from quite sometime and I loose my patience very easily. Especially when I'm constantly spending top dollar and getting handed mid range products.
sincerely,
one of many non returning customers going forward
I just finished taking about 30 minutes fully explaining my point on mac. I was signed in went to submit reply and messaged error and my whole post is gone.
I think that pretty much sums up what Apple is currently giving you for your dollar. Your dollar spent in on apple gets you NOTHING.
As a developer, Apple is bat **** crazy thinking I'm going to spend 1599 to go out to see this conference. Not only could they not give away, even paying for my room and flight I would still not attend. As someone who makes just over $100 an hour to work my time is way too valuable to watch Apple have a bunch of buffoons show me incremental upgrades, and very little real life knowledge going forward. The fact that there are empty tickets is just an inclination there's no value to this Conference at all. If the remaining tickets were a low amount, after previous taking a list of developers, they'd either just Eat It, or do a quick hand out. The problem is they called up a ton of these developers and got a bunch of No not interested. So much too the point, that this conference would have been empty. The fact that this macrumors only had 34 comments and most of these people are even dying to go is a really bad sign. I mean stand back and think how many people are on this forum and how many just really don't care.
As someone who was super long apple for most of my equity from 520 to 400 range increase, and a developer this company is just unfortunately run by a complete moron.
He has not delivered on anything
Lets first talk about the rumors
2 years ago + 4k tv Box TV and I watch coming.
Oh the glorious 4k hand action TV before there was already that. Apple was going to control your living room and electronic experience tying together everything you use. Insert incremental upgrades to the apple tv as literally every other likewise device improves at fasters pace.
the watch
here's where we were going with is at the end of 2012. When corning and Apple hooked up for the super flexible glass and with patents we currently had and ready available technology going to be here in under 6 months. I understand this isn't from oct, nov 2012 but I promise you this is where the concepts to it were going. And the direction the device was supposed to take...
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/02/iwatch-concept-holographic-display.html
and here we are now
http://toddham.com/blog/iwatch-concept/
Ok cool its way smaller and is gonna do way less and cost the same. And almost going to be totally revolved around siri. That's great cuz Siri is as ****ing bad as that "type to talk" software my dad tried to use in the early 1990s. Its so unbelievably pathetic how little siri can help. The only thing she really does is text people when you're driving. Which in most states you're not supposed to be doing already. SWEEEEEEEEEETTTTT
Ipad-Well lets see we printed out tons of 9.7's kept doing upgrades and less than 1/4 of the of consumers know theres ****ing 6 iPads already. And you've clearly over printed 9.7's so we'll be seeing old versions of iPads all liberally kinda marked the same. Which is super cool.
Iphone-kept steadily improving and just dropped the ball on this device upgrade. The 5s which i currently own is 100% worst of a phone then the 5. But how is that possible?
My battery is significantly weaker in my 5s then my 5...I've read about tons of people having this same problem. It doesn't literally even compare some how I just can't get 4 hours out of my device. I personally think iOS 7 is better than 6 and actually quite an improvement. Here's my complaint other than the battery what the hell happened to my glass. My phone which has never been dropped has knife like scratches that are super deep. I don't know about how frequently it scratches but the scratches in my last phone never bothered me when viewing. The scratches from literally putting it my pocket walking around general wear...are already so bad I want to get rid of it. This is one of those things where I know Mr. Tim Cook did is top like 24 hour check on the glass where as Jobs would have put way more. And in result I have a phone that might not break a lil bit more but deep scratches to sand like its butter. Which of the 2 is more logical Mr. Cook?
Macs-so when I first started using os x my 1st thought was omg this amazing. And it was win 95 i always thought was the best overall software but is easily topped by handful of os x versions. Then comes mavericks the 1st version of Apple software that has glitches, pop ups, and irregularities thru out. This is literally in software i believe the biggest letdown since microsoft millennium. Again Tim cook has literally 0 idea i'm sure that this software is significantly worst. I mean it looks a little prettier at 1st and he doesn't actually deal with all this stuff to know.
The new mac pros are also some of the worst value dollar computers i've literally ever seen put out. I literally can't imagine why someone would buy other than to show off. Its just I didn't know the $15,000 trash cash can could get you laid.
Ipod-dead
So in closing good luck selling $1600 tickets because you're going to have a way harder time then you guys think. A lot of your stuff has sucked from quite sometime and I loose my patience very easily. Especially when I'm constantly spending top dollar and getting handed mid range products.
sincerely,
one of many non returning customers going forward
He's press, different rules. He'll be there for the first day keynote no matter what
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There are not empty tickets, not the way you want folks to believe. There were more than enough folks signed up for the lottery to fill all the slots. Some folks from round one dropped out but that just means a round two took place. By WWDC every ticket will have sold at full price, no worries.
And if you think Apple is such trash why are you here. Why are you wasting time and strength on something you appear to loathe. Sign off and ignore Apple. Oh wait you are a self employed game developer. So you probably need Apple cause that is where the big change of making money is. And your desire for making money is bigger than your troll attitude. So you can't just dump Apple and you know if. Probably hate yourself for that so you toss your rants to make yourself feel better. Can't say based in your comments I care to see your games but perhaps the folks that don't read sites like this will be impressed
And here I was thinking I was a useless human being because I would rather spend the $2,500 its going to cost (between ticket, airfare from Maryland {BWI to SFO}, and a hotel for the week) on other things like, renovating my house, or saving for my future children. Rather than dumping the money on a week of not 100% necessary training and fun.
I would say yes... however since there was a lottery system. A lot of people who can't go probably got picked. They were never in the rush of people anyway.
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We get that you hate life. No need to bore us with it.
Also to add to the iS and OS X experience. You are obviously coming from some bad situation that I've never run into. The iPhone 5 and 5s is literally the same shell with different colors so the durability issue you have is not new, don't know where you are coming from. OS X Mountain Lion was more buggy than OS X Mavericks was... however, if you are running an older macbook, bugs are more likely to be noticeable as they are likely performance issues that could cause your computer to stall. (have not experienced this on the latest macbook)
I really wish I could help resolve your issues in some way but frankly, its none of my business.
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There is so much misunderstanding in your post, it's ridiculous, and beyond absurd. It doesn't seem like you meant your post to be a joke, but it's exactly what someone who is joking would write.
I love how you're harping on the amount of the conference - people do this every year. $1599 is a VERY low amount for a conference like this for developers. It's one of the lower amounts out there. Many of these types of conferences charge $4000 and up. Apple is not making any money on this conference, probably just breaking even.
This conference is NOT for the people here on MacRumors, which are generally consumers. It's for developers who make $100,000+ a year and who will make a lot more by getting the information as early as they can from Apple, and if they don't understand something, it's an opportunity to talk to Apple engineers immediately to clarify what they don't understand.
WWDC Appeal is getting someone long in the tooth
After three consecutive years of attendance. I can say the conference is way, way over hyped and over priced. Rarely is anything ever announced that isn't leaked to some blog long, long before it ever hits a keynote.
That being said, there have been some surprises.... some. Not enough to ever warrant the expense of going there. Which when you factor in ticket, plane, hotel and the quite expensive cost of food and travel within the city of San Francisco... you're well in excess of $2 - $3K for the week stay.
If you're a developer with money to burn, sure go. To me, honestly that sort of money is no big deal at all. It get's spent within a day or two in my business but that doesn't mean I don't know the value of something. If the demand is SO high they sell out in minutes and the event is so critical that developers must attend to stay ahead of the curve, then they SHOULD offer more tickets and employ more developers to teach at the sessions.
The fact is you are paying for a fashionable, exclusive Apple experience. One which honestly did have a cool factor some time ago. But the past few years it's been increasingly less productive and less valuable as a tool for learning.
So... yes, many points people raise about it's value have truth to them. But those days are fading fast. In all honesty, I love Apple to death but there's a great deal of competition out there and if I were spending my investment dollars wisely. I would be spending more on hiring seasoned engineers to come on campus to train my engineering team in more than just iOS and OSX.
I've said it many times but Apple just hasn't been the same without Steve. Tim Cook is good but he is no where near as good at running Apple as Steve was. Now it's only a matter of time till they begin to fade into the median. That is unless Johny Ive can really pull off some design magic in the OS department. And from the looks of iOS 7, it sure as hell doesn't look like there is enough going on.
After three consecutive years of attendance. I can say the conference is way, way over hyped and over priced. Rarely is anything ever announced that isn't leaked to some blog long, long before it ever hits a keynote.
That being said, there have been some surprises.... some. Not enough to ever warrant the expense of going there. Which when you factor in ticket, plane, hotel and the quite expensive cost of food and travel within the city of San Francisco... you're well in excess of $2 - $3K for the week stay.
If you're a developer with money to burn, sure go. To me, honestly that sort of money is no big deal at all. It get's spent within a day or two in my business but that doesn't mean I don't know the value of something. If the demand is SO high they sell out in minutes and the event is so critical that developers must attend to stay ahead of the curve, then they SHOULD offer more tickets and employ more developers to teach at the sessions.
The fact is you are paying for a fashionable, exclusive Apple experience. One which honestly did have a cool factor some time ago. But the past few years it's been increasingly less productive and less valuable as a tool for learning.
So... yes, many points people raise about it's value have truth to them. But those days are fading fast. In all honesty, I love Apple to death but there's a great deal of competition out there and if I were spending my investment dollars wisely. I would be spending more on hiring seasoned engineers to come on campus to train my engineering team in more than just iOS and OSX.
I've said it many times but Apple just hasn't been the same without Steve. Tim Cook is good but he is no where near as good at running Apple as Steve was. Now it's only a matter of time till they begin to fade into the median. That is unless Johny Ive can really pull off some design magic in the OS department. And from the looks of iOS 7, it sure as hell doesn't look like there is enough going on.
The number 8 has such negative connotations because of windows 8 that I wonder if they'll skip ios 8 and just release ios 9 
Imagine a company with 10 developers who want to go to WWDC, and money for 2 to go. All ten enter the lottery. If there are one or two winners, both go. If there are 3 or 4 or more winners, only two go. That would be normal.
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I looked at your rant, but this one sentence shows clearly that you didn't understand a thing about how this ticket sale works.
You'll never see WWDC on the new campus. It has been a long standing policy to keep non-Apple employee meetings on company facilities to a hundred visitor at the most. Even when it is that big, they are restricted to a theater area with tight security.
Issue is independents running amok on the campus getting into areas of highly confidential projects and operations. Let alone the concern of overly introverted independent developer overwhelmed by large crowds.
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This is very close to what happened at one company I'm working with right now. They ended up with more slots to attend than budget. The reason why they have so many developer accounts is to expand the their provision list above a hundred devices.
All accounts were registered for the WWDC lottery and to their amazement, ALL of them got a slot. One developer was trying to convince management to have non-employees take the slot and have them pay for it indirectly. The execs said no way as that could muck up Apple relationships so these precious slots were thrown back into the secondary pool.
So what you are saying is that you will be attending Samsung's developer conference to lean all about the WILDLY popular Tizen OS? (said no one ever).
so this wouldn't be for say someone who's currently employing 18 active workers avging 300 Hours a week on a project which is revolving around IoS? I'm pretty sure I'm the guy who should be here I haven't posted before but I found a reason to post and had clearly a lot to say. The fact that I didn't bother to put my name on the list, and won't until I see fit is a problem. They better hope the fanboys buy up these tickets because small house developers don't care.
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I would spend an equal amount on each...there was a point 3 years ago where I was in no position to be going to such a conference. Now, I am able to and should and am choosing not too for a variety of reasons.