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Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes
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Was not able to buy because their ****** web server was stucked. Angry
Their server held up fine. It was your internet connection.
But not them. Their developers need to spend time developing. Not running in-person labs all year. WWDC is the time they take to do that.
Why? So those in other time zones don't have a chance to buy at all. Imagine if you woke up one morning and found out they all sold while you were sleeping.
Doesn't your Apple ID have your address in it already. Did you not think to do this ahead of time?
No, they made it fair to those in other time zones. Everyone had the same chance.
To everyone that didn't get to buy a ticket: If only Safari was snappier...
I successfully bought mine on Safari. I had Chrome open too (my preferred browser) but it was less responsive at the time...
The trick....
Yup, that's right! Here's how we managed to get one out of two attempts.
1) We were both ALREADY logged into ALL of the following: The Apple Store, The Developer site, and sitting on the Ticket purchase page refreshing furiously until the buy button showed.
2) We had credit cards on file in our store accounts. And we had turned on one click shopping, just in case. Didn't matter, but we had it on.
So all the cookies that could be set were set. It did help cause we did manage to get 1
Yup, that's right! Here's how we managed to get one out of two attempts.
1) We were both ALREADY logged into ALL of the following: The Apple Store, The Developer site, and sitting on the Ticket purchase page refreshing furiously until the buy button showed.
2) We had credit cards on file in our store accounts. And we had turned on one click shopping, just in case. Didn't matter, but we had it on.
So all the cookies that could be set were set. It did help cause we did manage to get 1
And wasn't there an analyst article just last week saying how developers were dropping the sinking ship of Apple?
Definitely time for Apple to come up with something new. Selling out in two minutes just defeats the purpose. Maybe half the tickets should go to invites only and not just the person who's browser happens to refresh the fastest.
Definitely time for Apple to come up with something new. Selling out in two minutes just defeats the purpose. Maybe half the tickets should go to invites only and not just the person who's browser happens to refresh the fastest.
Serious question: anyone know why WWDC sells out so fast and not let more people come? Is the convention center not big enough, or Apple doesn't have enough developers? I've never been so I wouldn't know.
I've been to a few of the National Education Association's annual conferences and over 11,000 people came. Of course, it's probably a lot different than WWDC. Everyone just stays in the conference hall, vote on bylaws, new business items, etc. No labs, breakout sessions, etc. But it always takes place over the 4th of JUly. Last year's was in Washington DC. Got to watch the fireworks on the Potomac with the Washington monument. Even got a ride to & from the dock in a stretch limo with 5 beautiful women. 2 years before that, it was in New Orleans. Plus, to make it better, all expenses paid.
I've been to a few of the National Education Association's annual conferences and over 11,000 people came. Of course, it's probably a lot different than WWDC. Everyone just stays in the conference hall, vote on bylaws, new business items, etc. No labs, breakout sessions, etc. But it always takes place over the 4th of JUly. Last year's was in Washington DC. Got to watch the fireworks on the Potomac with the Washington monument. Even got a ride to & from the dock in a stretch limo with 5 beautiful women.
2 years before that, it was in New Orleans. Plus, to make it better, all expenses paid.got mine on Safari.
I got mine on safari. The other dude here got bounced trying to use Chrome.
I got mine on safari. The other dude here got bounced trying to use Chrome.
Yes, Moscone North and South can hold 20,000 people.
Sun Microsystems had their JavaOne conference at Moscone North & South during the year just before the .com bubble burst and 25,000 people were in attendance. I was one of the attendees! They had to also use Moscone West and the Marriott as overflow because they just about broke the fire code violations! The .com bubble burst the next year and there were only about 6000 JavaOne attendees. This was way before Sun got bought by Oracle and Sun could not sell servers fast enough and the Java language was king.
So yes there is a lot more room if they use Moscone North & South. They are probably already booked though!
Marcus
First batch of Blizzcon tickets sold out in half a second.
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.
And I've been spelling it "Blurg". I'm going to have to look this up. I keep getting the error too. Hopefully all will be good soon. I am not confident until I activate (whatever that means) it.
Actually.... its not.
We got our W rooms weeks ago on the basis that NOTHING was booked in theoretical time frame. We had been checking the Moscone schedule up until a few days ago and nothing else is listed there. So if they wanted to they could have doubled or tripled it. Not really sure they why they don't?! Not really buying the staffing thing. They have 13,000 employees or so Im sure they could dig up enough staff. Actually, not sure why they just don't live stream the whole thing, or lots of it. Lots of people would pay to watch that.
Not as cool as being there, but still probably worthy paying for. Might even be better...
We got our W rooms weeks ago on the basis that NOTHING was booked in theoretical time frame. We had been checking the Moscone schedule up until a few days ago and nothing else is listed there. So if they wanted to they could have doubled or tripled it. Not really sure they why they don't?! Not really buying the staffing thing. They have 13,000 employees or so Im sure they could dig up enough staff. Actually, not sure why they just don't live stream the whole thing, or lots of it. Lots of people would pay to watch that.
Not as cool as being there, but still probably worthy paying for. Might even be better...
The problem with making the event significantly bigger is that you lose the valuable one-on-one opportunities with the engineers. So, you've basically turned a five-star restaurant experience into fast food.
You just can't make it bigger. It's too big now! Apple should double the ticket price, and cut the attendee number in half. I'd rather pay for quality time, than being herded around like cattle.
It would be interesting to see how many would have been sold if the number of tickets had been unlimited
5,000 attendees @ $1,599 cost per ticket, that's a whopping 8 million dollars in 2 minutes. Now THAT'S impressive!!!
and it's gone (prob ebay cracking down)
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