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Tickets for WWDC 2012 Sell Out in Under Two Hours
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can you resell these (ebay/craigs/etc)?
good to know for next year
You can of course sell them. However, Apple won't let anyone in with your ticket unless they bring forged identification papers as well. And the forgeries better be good.
No name changes, no refunds.
got two, sell them on ebay now.
Congratulations. Hope you bought them both in the same name. (No name changes, no refunds).
Last year they released the WWDC videos promptly enough to be a "Week 2" of presentation material, and then scheduled worldwide Tech Talks a few months later to allow more developers to talk with select Apple engineers.
But a lot of WWDC is the networking, and for that you either have to attend in person (or maybe just find out where all the parties will be in and around SF during WWDC week
You are probably right about Asia. Europe? Not so much. Pretty much everyone in Europe should be wide awake right now (6:25 pm CEST).
West Coast developers interested in attending WWDC get the expense pre-approved and assign someone to check Apple's developer email and website between 4 AM and 7 AM, every morning, well before getting to work. GoogleIO sold out even faster this year.
I'm an individual and I went in '10 and '11. It's worth the ticket price for sure.
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What do GoogleIO ticket sell for? $450? Plus people think that they're getting a free device to develop on just for attending. It's not insane to see thousands of people plopping down that kind of scratch in under 30 minutes.
With so many wanting a one-on-one with Apple engineers, perhaps there would be a demand for a technical equivalent of Apple's One to One program? Access to a software engineer at each Apple Store would be great. There are probably enough indie App Store developers who would welcome some regular income to staff the posts.
I imagine most of the individuals that are going are making enough where they can allocate the funds if they feel that it's important. Given that this is the only chance to engage on a 1-1 basis with Apple like this, they look at is as a necessary investment into their business. Most other people work for companies that pay out of the budgeted expense the same as they would for any other multi-day conference.
Ok, I'm not a developer and I have no interest in going (nor the money or justification), but from my understanding they just announced the tickets were on sale with no warning beforehand that the tickets would go on sale then.
Meaning no one had any idea they were supposed to stay up late last night for the tickets to go on sale.
Are you saying they should stay up every night until the tickets go on sale just in case they go on sale that night? Or is there a way for them to know when they are going to announce the tickets and them going on sale (cause it sounds to me that they don't announce they will put the tickets on sale on certain day, they just announce the tickets are on sale at the time they are on sale).
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Ah, so you're saying they should spend extra money for who knows how long just to hire some one to be up that early in the morning...
Still ridiculous to ask of people if you ask me.
Apple should either announce tickets go on sale on this date or should sell them in batches to give people in different time periods a chance.
can you resell these (ebay/craigs/etc)?
good to know for next year
The tickets are tied to not only the developer account but the name also.
If dev joblo at mac dot com purchased a ticket it would have been sold to jo blo and only jo blo could attend. Or the company attached to the ticket.
This was essentially the content of the complaint I sent up through the developer channel. In a nutshell, I commented on the piss-poor implementation of this year's sales, especially when everyone knew the event would sell out in a matter of a few hours.
I suggested they notify their developers via e-mail and send an invite announcing the time and date of the start of WWDC sales. That way their servers get hammered, but everyone in the world has an equal shot at getting tickets.
It's not available the next day btw.
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Them's the breaks.
Besides, Apple did email me while tickets were still available. Albeit 10 minutes after I already registered...
That's pretty standard for a high-tech developer conference that's being hosted in the SF Bay Area.
The three-day conference pass for Google I/O 2012 is $900. The five-day early bird conference pass for Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is $2095 (on-site registration is $2595).
And Microsoft? Let's take the five-day Visual Studio Live! at the Microsoft HQ as an example. $1795 for super early bird registration (on-site registration is $2195).
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I don't agree - it's hard enough on the devs to take them off projects already for a week, doubling the time commitments is going to make things more disruptive.
Well unless something has changed from last year those rules only apply after the ticket has been activated. Otherwise it is transferable like any other dev asset.
You actually can sell the tickets the think that is not transferable is the developer program portal they are under. You simply need to add a new person to your portal and give them the ticket code.
It will say they are from your company when they attend though.
I know this because my technical director last year bought 3 tickets at the odd hour of the day and then gave us the codes to activate them under our name.
It will say they are from your company when they attend though.
I know this because my technical director last year bought 3 tickets at the odd hour of the day and then gave us the codes to activate them under our name.
Agreed! Or at least tell people when they are going to go on sale. If you live in a place like Hawaii or Alaska and didn't wake up early they sold out before you even woke up.