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WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later

Posted by timothy on from the makes-you-crave-them-fortnightly dept.

alphadogg writes "The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference sold out in just two minutes today, blowing away last year's record of two hours. Tickets went on sale today at 10 a.m. PDT, as was announced yesterday, when Apple said its event would be held June 10-14 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Apple WWDC runs neck-and-neck with the annual Google I/O event in the race for hottest tech show. The Google event, slated for May 15-17 at Moscone Center, sold out in 45 minutes this year. While transferring tickets for WWDC is generally not allowed, an ambitious eBay seller is attempting to get $10K for the $1,600 ticket."

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  1. hmmm by slashmydots · · Score: 4, Funny

    So can someone maybe get a leak of the attendee list so I can write a script that eliminates them from all my social media platforms?

    1. Re:hmmm by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Funny

      When I recieved the confirmation that I had a set of tickets to this event, I literally creamed my pants. I have heard rumors that Steve Jobs faked his death and will eventually show up to announce a new product, perhaps the Dick Tracy Watch, which would be Apple's greated technological leap.

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    2. Re:hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      He will descend from the heavens, and the fanbois will put their fingers in his prostate, and they will know it is him.

      They he'll be all, "I heard you dumb motherfuckers let them repo my yacht. The plans for the SuperMac were in there."

  2. Re:Saw plastic iPhones in person. by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I already have a plastic iPhone. It's called a 3GS.

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  3. Re:remember when this was for developers? by newcastlejon · · Score: 4, Funny

    (For reference, I remember being an actual Apple Developer, and receiving the monthly CDROMs with amusing titles)

    And I remember ars before the op-ed ramblings on copyright and the video game reviews. You can't go back, so we just have the Old Geezer meeting on the second Saturday of every month. Newcomers are not welcome.

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  4. Re:Yeah, but when will they make a larger iPhone? by Reasonable+Facsimile · · Score: 4, Funny

    Having hands that one of my kids once told me resembled bear paws... oversized and clumsy, something about the same size as the Galaxy S3 would be ideal for my purposes, because I've always found the iPhone display to be unusably tiny for anything involving complex interactivity (such as texting, for instance).

    Puny human iPhone make Hulk sad.

  5. Re:Saw plastic iPhones in person. by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 3, Funny

    sell the pants on eBay for $10,000

  6. Ambitious indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    While transferring tickets for WWDC is generally not allowed, an ambitious eBay seller is attempting to get $10K for the $1,600 ticket."

    Trying to sell something to Apple users at 6 times the value instead of the usual 3 is ambitious indeed.

  7. Re:remember when this was for developers? by crutchy · · Score: 4, Funny

    women are from venus, men are from mars... apple fanbois are from uranus

    normal people will never understand them