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Apple Offering Some Devs a Second Chance at WWDC Tickets
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This place used to rock
If I ever screwed around someone 10x smarter than me put me in my place
Oh the good old days
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Well This happened to me (tried to purchase my ticket at 1 pm EST sharp got an error and bang SOLD OUT) and I'm sure many more, to which none of use have had any call from Apple. This was a total fiasco! Straight out of a TicketMaster Playbook! And all because they decided to announce the sales 24 hours in advance!
Well This happened to me (tried to purchase my ticket at 1 pm EST sharp got an error and bang SOLD OUT) and I'm sure many more, to which none of use have had any call from Apple. This was a total fiasco! Straight out of a TicketMaster Playbook! And all because they decided to announce the sales 24 hours in advance!
And then have people complain that these extra engineers should be working on the new [insert product name here] instead? Not really feasible to increase supply unless they also increase the number of engineers they send to the event.
So what you're really saying is because that there are people from other countries that develop for Apple... Apple should fly hundreds, maybe thousands of their engineers to said foreign country, rent out a conference center, and host WWDC there?
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I can say it's gone way down hill since the iPhone was released.
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What the hell? You have the nerve to make ridiculous generalizations and then imply that the guy you are responding too isn't polite? Interesting.
No one said its too expensive. It just wouldn't make sense. Would the company you work for be able to send 1,000 employees on a month-long excursion travelling the world and NOT doing their work at the office? If so, you're wasting a lot of money on employees.
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Have any of you received your email yet? I received the voicemail yesterday at 4:09pm and I am pretty excited at getting a 2nd opportunity, wondering when emails will start rolling in...
Wow, I remember when I could come here and read witty, intelligent comments. Now there are so many trolls.
Hold on a moment, we have some of the wittiest and most intelligent trolls.
Good on Microsoft. Maybe if/when Apple has 90% global market share they too will do that.
Wow, I remember when I could come here and read witty, intelligent comments. Now there are so many trolls.
Because there is too much butt kissing now in this forum after iOS has showed.
I remember before people used to come here to learn something new or to ask for help. And yes, discussions were civil and witty. Apple wasn't as well known then and people actually came here as regular customers and users. Now it's plagued with too much fanboyism.
Every middle schoolers who has just recently received an iPhone or Touch from dad or grandpa last week for their birthday suddenly creates an account here to become the newest champion and staunchest defender of Apple. Having a mini orgasms every time a billion is added to Apples' coffers. Double standards is now the norm. Smugness and elitism at its finest.
This would have been called a cock-up before, but now we call it great customer service. Lol.
It'll come. You have to imagine that Apple needs to build an interface for the lucky devs to buy their tickets. You could always call the dev support 800 number if you want an Apple employee to reassure you.
No email yet . . .
I got the call yesterday as well. It was a very pleasant surprise. Have not yet received the email. It is well after 12 hours. I'm sure it will come so I went ahead and booked my hotel and flights.
Neither of our engineers has gotten the email either. They did say on the phone that we would get an email with instructions within 12 hours. I hope they are just behind. Apple will have a cluster**** of a PR nightmare if they can't deliver.
edit: Email from Apple has now arrived with ticket purchasing link. Unfortunately no one in the company can use the link to purchase. It's possible it's because we're all members of multiple development teams. Safari errors out with too many redirects. We let Apple know.
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Got the email...
Woot Woot! Got in!!!
I too had to Ticket in my Cart and it rejected my Credit Card number. Got the Call from apple at 3:30pm yesterday explaining of the Error and to wait 12 hours for an email.
My email came in today at 11:49. I signed in and purchased the Ticket and have an Order ID. I think one of the other commenters was Correct, they needed to build a interface to handle the Purchase. It was a Pretty simple Entry form.
Woot Woot! Got in!!!
I too had to Ticket in my Cart and it rejected my Credit Card number. Got the Call from apple at 3:30pm yesterday explaining of the Error and to wait 12 hours for an email.
My email came in today at 11:49. I signed in and purchased the Ticket and have an Order ID. I think one of the other commenters was Correct, they needed to build a interface to handle the Purchase. It was a Pretty simple Entry form.
Oh you mean the Apple software products that never seem to get any new versions like iWork, iLife, Aperture, etc, etc.
Yes I can see they must be really busy in the Apple software development unit.
I don't think one week or four weeks helping developers is going to make much of a dent in Apple's development schedules. And anyway Apple would reap the rewards as more international software means more international sales which means more 30% fees for Apple.
Ive had the same thing....tried on three computers and an iPhone. Safari, Firefox, and IE.
Just got off the phone with Apple and the good news is that if you received the email then there is a ticket reserved for you in the system....you're going....its official. So the best advice right now is just to wait it out...