“After going on sale at 10:00 AM Pacific Time today, tickets for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco have already sold out in two minutes,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.
“WWDC has sold out increasingly quickly in recent years, and this year in particular saw a massive rush of developers ready to purchase at the launch time due to Apple having announced the on-sale time a day in advance,” Slivka reports. “Previously, Apple had begun sales at the moment it announced details on the annual conference, but with last year’s tickets selling out in under two hours, some developers found themselves out of luck before they had even woken up for the day.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: YKBAID.
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Hey iHaters….developers love creating awesome stuff for Apple.
All the tickets were bought up by a Microsoft Bot, and nobody will be at the conference.
They don’t create stuff FOR Apple. They create stuff that works with or runs on Apple products because they believe Apple products are the best.
Apple paid developers $1,000,000,000 (1 Billion Dollars) last quarter.
Chew on that.
next year developers get access for free if they opt for the zero payment payout plan
Next time , sold out in 1 seconds
That is ONE hot ticket… 🙂 Apple is going to need a lottery system soon.
I seconds that motion.
Sounds like you need a sniper app to buy WWDC tickets. 😉
What? Seriously? 2 minutes? Thank goodness I got mine!
Actually it takes two minutes to go from open window to final credit card closure.
Two thousand portals , two thaws and tickets, into minutes.
Just a thought. And moving along JAT>
Boy do i hate apples auto correct sometimes. 🙁
Can they really just not move the WWDC to a bigger arena?
The 49ers new stadium will open in a few years, just down the road from the mothership… 🙂
Part of the appeal of WWDC is interacting with Apple developers. Asking questions, getting suggestions, etc. There are only so many of them to go around. So a larger venue really wouldn’t help.
With all the negative news on Apple’s stock and with what feels like a general lag in Apple products and innovation, I was very happy to see WWDC selling out so quickly. That says a lot that the headlines just don’t convey.
How can that even happen?? I thought it took longer than that to fill out the form to get them!
Yeah, seems a bit fishy.
I agree. Once the maintenance notice went away (10:00:15am PST), the site just said index.action cannot be completed – or something to that effect. After I finally got in (~10:00:45am PST), there was no announcement or change of any kind. I clicked around the site frantically, and I saw nothing. I reloaded the WWDC ticket page (~10:03:00am PST) to see if there was a link there, and that’s when it said sold-out. I thought, “Surely, that’s a mistake,” but it wasn’t.
I didn’t even get a chance to fill-out the form. How did other people get pages served and I didn’t?
Did you try to sign up with your Dell Insipron?
Nope, this: MacBookPro9,2
People are reporting that it took between 70 and 100 seconds to actually make the purchase. So the two minute mark is, indeed, possible.
If this is powered by Apple’s cloud services, there’s like a 50% chance it is in error.
Or maybe a 100% error for you. 🙂
Think big cowboy😉
Or do another session on the east coast.
… of six continents!
On line sessions is the only answer.
The issue is Apple’s engineers’ and designers’ time. Apple takes a huge number of engineers and designers away from their day jobs in order to support this. In many cases you’ll get the person who actually wrote the code for something giving that talk. (You really don’t want some marketing guy standing up there trying to tell you how to implement a specific set of API calls in XCode.)
If Apple held two WWDCs then that would pull the staff away for too much. If there were two concurrent WWDCs Apple would not have enough engineers and designers to support both.
Yes that makes perfect sense. My thought was the years I worked in MI and retail, I was a NAMM Attendee. Living in Indy, Only 1 staffer got to go to the LA/Anaheim Show. (The show with the stars- You’d see Eddie Van Halen outside smoking)The rest of us got to go to the Summer Nashville TN show for 1/2 the price. So, my thoughts were if they had a SF session AND say a Boston session another time of year. OR- How about a separate iOS and OS X conference? I should be CEO of Apple.
WWDC tickets sold out 95% faster this year than for Google’s I/O conference (which of course were BOGOF deals – heh).
This is ridiculous. I think it’s time to move it to a larger venue.
While I agree that the conference should be larger. It cannot be THAT much larger. The whole point of the WWDC is to have small sessions in which developers can interact *directly* with Apple’s engineering and design staff. Changing a session from 50 to 60 or so people might be viable, but doubling it to 100 people kills the chance for most of the attendees to get that direct interaction. At that point Apple might as well just video the session and post it — oh wait, Apple is doing that too!
Where you at RP?
Tell us how this is a sign of Apples decline, ramble about a bell curve, try some shitty false equivalence with Rim and Microsoft.
Then chew on this for a minute: WWDC was so important that tens of thousands of developers bought EVERY single available ticket in TWO DAMN MINUTES. Sure sounds like a company in decline to me…HA.
What’s this acronym mean: YKBAID
You know; because Apple is doomed
I’m guessing its “you know, because apple is dead”
They should auction it for a coffee date.
well, was it sold out? the reason is that the place for conference is way smaller. that’s why they don’t have many seats. don’t misunderstand me. it is only developers’ party. as consumers, I don’t care at all.
This if something should send a signal to Wall Street. But I doubt they are listening. I think this is an extremely bullish sign and shows the interest that exist in the iOS platform. And the tickets are $1599 each. So this is incredible.