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

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."

Comments

hmmm

[slashmydots]

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?

Re:hmmm

[ackthpt]

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.

Doesn't Diet Smith hold many patents on the Dick Tracy two-way wrist computer?

Re:hmmm

[tlhIngan]

You realize most of those attendee's are major companies right? While in the past a lot of "consumers" would manage to get a ticket to this, these days its massively frowned upon and I would venture to say 80-90% of those tickets went to companies looking to send their developers for facetime with the heads of Apples Mac and iOS development teams about issues/concerns/ideas.

The days of jackasses like Violet Blue coming to a developer conference to hob nob when she doesnt know shit about being a developer have long passed when people started to care about app development and iOS.

It's also why Apple has stopped really announcing new products at WWDC because they want the people who work in their ecosystem to benefit, not random press bloggers who simply are there for the new stuff.

And no, it's not just major companies - Apple wants to encourage developers to attend - iOS or OS X, a good chunk of whom are tiny one-man companies but who have just a big a chance of attending and bitching/learning about changes in iOS and OS X.

In short, it's really like Google I/O without the hardware giveaways. It's held for developers to learn and do things better. It's not for Joe Average Fanboy who wants to see the latest shiny. But engaging the developer with upcoming changes means that when the upcoming shiny comes out, developers have already have stuff using the new APIs out of the gate.

Re:hmmm

[Charliemopps]

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.

Re:Saw plastic iPhones in person.

[ArcadeMan]

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

Re:Is there a real reason to go?

[falcon5768]

The hallway time is the reason to go. Some of the sessions and labs get your in person with the leads of most of the teams and its not unheard of for app developers or companies who have issues to vent them there and see software updates in the future reflect those problems. The sessions they post online for everyone, but the hallway time and closed discussions are absolutely worth the cost of 1-2 tickets, not to mention you are not just talking about Apple here, but Google comes and pretty much every major developer is there.

remember when this was for developers?

[tekrat]

And not fanboys?

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

Re:remember when this was for developers?

[newcastlejon]

(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.

Re:remember when this was for developers?

[crutchy]

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

normal people will never understand them

Re:remember when this was for developers?

[sootman]

Yeah. It's all the fanboys.

Fans of making money, that is.

WWDC Videos

[AlreadyStarted]

The session videos are usually available the next week. Occasionally I'll write some app to automate some task on my mac, and I've really enjoyed watching the videos in previous years. Definitely stuff for nerds;)

Re:Yeah, but when will they make a larger iPhone?

[Reasonable Facsimile]

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.

Re:Saw plastic iPhones in person.

[j00r0m4nc3r]

sell the pants on eBay for $10,000

Re:Is there a real reason to go?

[UnknowingFool]

The WWDC isn't really for you to just learn the new APIs. It's about being able to interact with some of the Apple engineers that wrote the new APIs. Like your opinion about how the audio ones are written. Maybe if you asked them in person, they would give you a good reason why it was done that way. Or they even agree with and let you know that they could be changing in the next release. If you impress them enough, you might find a job offer in the future. It's also about networking with other Apple developers, too.

Entrance exam

[Barlo_Mung_42]

They should have a small coding test you have to get through in order to get to the sign up page.