The venue, Moscone West, holds 5000 people comfortably. Thus, the number of tickets would be close to 5000.
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Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes
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The venue, Moscone West, holds 5000 people comfortably. Thus, the number of tickets would be close to 5000.
First batch of Blizzcon tickets sold out in half a second. 
Nother round this saturday tho, so 1 second combined probably.
Nother round this saturday tho, so 1 second combined probably.
I agree.
Something better should be done. Developers should be able to have a week-long time period where they can sign up. Then, on the 8th day, emails go out to those who've been accepted through a lottery.
But, but, but the haters here said that Apple is dying! that no one is interested in Apple products any more! Apple must be lying because the haters and arm chair CEO's all have doctorates accurately forecasting the future!
In all seriousness though it is great the changes they've announced which is making videos available at the end of each session rather than having to wait till the expo is over. For people like me on the other side of the world it isn't always feasible or financial possible to travel so the idea of 'being there' virtually by getting access to sessions promptly really does help a lot.
In all seriousness though it is great the changes they've announced which is making videos available at the end of each session rather than having to wait till the expo is over. For people like me on the other side of the world it isn't always feasible or financial possible to travel so the idea of 'being there' virtually by getting access to sessions promptly really does help a lot.
When MacRumors said "tickets on sale on April 25th" I said they were wrong; tickets would be on sale from 10:00 to 10:07am. Seems I was wrong
Same thing happened to me, got all my information entered and when I hit the "Purchase Ticket" button, I got an error, kicked out to the main store page, nothing in cart, already sold out. I figured that once I was entering my information I had a spot reserved, but they apparently screwed that up. Is it too much to ask to give me a couple minutes to make sure my information is entered correctly? I guess it is.
Was not able to buy because their ****** web server was stucked. Angry
That's what you think. I'm quite sure that they had 5,000 tickets, 5,000 people managed to get through to Apple's servers, and the rest were redirected by a server that was working perfectly fine.
More than five thousand other people had also entered their information correctly.
Multiply that out and it's what they gave to the Chinese for Earthquake relief!
But seriously - they really should move to a lottery system. It makes the most sense both technologically and psychologically.
You cannot re-sell the tickets after you buy them. Please see the following:
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/more/#attendance
I think they should end the conference. Instead of it, they should still produce and distribute the videos/slides/example code of technical presentations.
They should also offer in-person and video conference design/technical labs for a fee based on how long the lab runs.
This combination would better serve the developer community.
They should also offer in-person and video conference design/technical labs for a fee based on how long the lab runs.
This combination would better serve the developer community.
They should just expand to the building across the street.
Who cares about the staff. I'd just populate the tables with lots of macs with safari open to StackOverflow... be better than most of the "help" I got from the "staff" last year. In fact one of them didn't know the answer and started pulling up SO while i was sitting there?!
Who cares about the staff. I'd just populate the tables with lots of macs with safari open to StackOverflow... be better than most of the "help" I got from the "staff" last year. In fact one of them didn't know the answer and started pulling up SO while i was sitting there?!
Because it is a 5 day conference -- and if all those thousands of Apple engineers are at WWDC they aren't at work -- they can't shut down the company for 2 weeks...
Equal sized building across the st.
They could double it by using the building across the st. Many of the talks are duped and there are lots of tracks... they could easily put unrelated tracks in different buildings.
They could double it by using the building across the st. Many of the talks are duped and there are lots of tracks... they could easily put unrelated tracks in different buildings.
The 'staff' working there are the ACTUAL Apple employees who wrote the code you're questioning. These aren't minimum wage fry people here.
Sounds like you're lying, and promoting this website, or you ended up asking cafeteria help.
I thought they were "transferable" but only before they are activated.
I know at least in 2011 when standing in line for the keynote the guy in front of me was bragging about how he bought 3 tickets and using the money he got from selling 2 of them he paid for the 3rd.
They might have done something last year to stop that but I really don't know.
I got lucky....
I got into the shopping cart hit purchase... got an error hit refresh and was somehow able to complete. Proof of that is got the confirm email and see it in my Apple store list of purchased items.
I got into the shopping cart hit purchase... got an error hit refresh and was somehow able to complete. Proof of that is got the confirm email and see it in my Apple store list of purchased items.
