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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. Re:hmmm by Charliemopps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even a small one. $1600 is pretty standard for a conference or even a basic class about database structure or project management. It all depends on what's there. If it's a yearly sales pitch, then yea, that's expensive. But if there's a bunch of people there that are doing crazy new stuff it's worth it just to mingle. Some of the stuff I work on is so proprietary to our industry there's just no info on the net about it, so these conferences can be a goldmine.

  2. Re:remember when this was for developers? by sootman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah. It's all the fanboys.

    Fans of making money, that is.

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