Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes

[Mr.damien]

Their server held up fine. It was your internet connection.

Yeah sure, I saw a "maintenance server" error from Apple Server because my connection was bad...

I am not alone in the same case, and don't tell me that my corporate network can't handle that ...

 

[dokujaryu]

Warning: Technical analysis incoming

It would've been more than half a second. There is about 150 ms latency between CA and NZ and it takes two requests to grab a ticket; one to view the ticket page and one to click the button on that page. I got a ticket and I'm sure that it took me more than 200 ms to click the button... and there were about 60% left at that point. So my guess is that they sold out in 2-3 seconds.

I was measuring the first submit that showed a low queue number (~80) to the first submit that showed a queue number too high (~5000). We were all trying in a room of computers and one of us got a really low number and one didn't make it. The time between "YES" and "AWWW" was around half a second.

But yeah, it was probably more like 2 seconds between page available and "AWWW".

 

[drblank]

I'd say one event a year no longer suffices.

They can't do two events because iOS and OS X are done concurrently. If they split it up for two, one dedicated to OS X and the other for iOS then it might be difficult for those to attend both.

The reason why they keep it small is they don't want to spend too much money because they still post all of the videos from each session, so if you can't go, you can at least get the information by streaming video. RIght?