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Apple's WWDC 2019 Ticket Lottery Ends, Winners Begin Receiving Confirmation Emails

BaccaBossMC said:
Has Apple adjusted to only taking 30%? Last I heard it was 49%, and besides, I'm sure the government takes their chunk of what is left.
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Last you heard? Check Apple's developer policy which has been available online since before the App Store launched. It's still 30%, just like it always has been. And yes, the government does take their chunk. It's called taxes, which has also been a thing since pretty much the beginning of the world. None of these facts should be "mind boggling" at this point.
 
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bladerunner2000 said:
Of course Apple charges $1,600 for a conference ticket.... and of course Apple consumers willingly pay that kind of money.

Insane.
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When was the last time you looked at the Microsoft Build conference? $2395.00 this year, for three days.

And besides, it's not the consumers that buy the tickets and go, its the developers for the most part. Makes business sense for businesses in the MacOS developer world.
 
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$1600 is a *bargain* for developers to get into the 1:1 labs alone. I’ve been to some of the Tech Talks over the years, which are sorta like mini WWDCs. I was actually able to ask questions about APIs that I was struggling with at the time and get a response right away. Way better than posting a question to their dev forums or opening a support ticket.

When you are paying devs $100+/hour, you can easily make up the costs of sending them to WWDC.
 
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bladerunner2000 said:
Of course Apple charges $1,600 for a conference ticket.... and of course Apple consumers willingly pay that kind of money.
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I saw a few of your posts over the last months and always thought what an uninformed grumpy old man you must be. Maybe even an Apple hater. But now seeing you write "Apple consumers" when it is obviously for developers I figured out you are just trolling. You know it's not consumers but developers but you are *** off counting your likes and the replies. So I took a quick look and hey there is an ignore list on MacRumors! LOL
 
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Bin Cook said:
As much as Tim Cook is greedy scum personified, £1600 is a bargain for the networking alone. Unfortunately it also all but puts free app developers out of the loop, as they are not likely to qualify for the scholarship*.

*Apple already signalling they no longer want free devs in their ecosystem so this won’t ever change.
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£1200 (or 1199) was how much my card was charged
 
BaccaBossMC said:
I still find it mind boggling that Apple charges so much for a dev to go to WWDC where they are taught how to make better apps, of which Apple takes half the revenue.
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As has been pointed out, it’s 30% then 15% for subscriptions after a year. And 70% of something is better than 100% of nothing. In the “old days” of shrink-wrapped software, you’d be lucky to get 40% from a distributor.

Of course those who want to “go it alone” and sell on their website instead of through in-app purchases are free to do so, and Apple’s cut if that revenue is exactly zero. Netflix pays $99 a year so their customers can download the Netflix app 5 billion times a year. Some of Apple’s 30% cut goes to pay for that.
 
bladerunner2000 said:
Of course Apple charges $1,600 for a conference ticket.... and of course Apple consumers willingly pay that kind of money.

Insane.
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You mean like pretty much every IT related conference? Microsoft Ignite, VMworld, Pure Accelerate, Dell Technologies World. Some of these are far more expensive.
 
Winni said:
Yeah, that's awesome. You can actually go on a real training course for that kind of money -- you know, with a trainer and a small class, and absolutely no "lottery" involved.

1600 bucks is a lot of money for going on a pilgrimage to meet Apple staff. Even the Vatican in Rome doesn't charge that entrance fee.
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Either you're a Microsoft Developer or not a developer at all. If you ever tried to follow a "real training course", you will find out that for 3 times the money you'll be introduced to the basics of developing apps and mostly only for iOS. I'm this year the lucky guy and happily will pay the money to ask questions in the labs that I con't get answers on in "real courses" and StackOverflow.

By the way, other conferences cost the same or more. What's your issue?
 
Olga.vogue said:
Whoever is not interested simply doesn't have to apply instead of complaining about the cost. Attending is not a necessity. Would you walk in a Ferrari dealership and complain Toyota costs so much less?
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Based on some posts it seems like something like that would indeed be the case.
 
Interesting in that all my updates for the past few years only contain "bug fixes" and "performance improvements"
 
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