If you’re an Apple developer and you haven’t already snagged a ticket for this year’s WWDC, better luck next year: Apple has updated its WWDC Web site with an indication that tickets for this year’s event are no longer available – they’re sold out (in record time).
If we go by your posts, that’s about 90 minutes. That’s insane. We’ll be counting in seconds next year.
More like two hours from the time WWDC got announced. I was really late to the punch with the initial announcement this morning – my profuse apologies to Jim and our readers.
Sucks for those still asleep on the west coast. I saw Marco say something around 5:30am/6am PST.
WWDC was announce at 8:32 (EDT), and sold out at 10:26 AM.
I’d love to know what Apple thinks of WWDC selling out so quickly.
– Do they like it because it attracts attention?
– Do they accept it because they think choosing larger venues or more sessions simultaneously would water down the value?
– Do they intend to continue hosting in a similar sized venue, or do they intend to try something different to meet the (clear) demand?
There are only so many Apple employees to provide the sessions.
The Conference isn’t a simple media event they can easily scale. It’s based in part on providing enough engineers to meet with devs who have questions and problems to solve.