Now both sold out...
Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds
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#12I guess that's what happens when everyone who attends gets a free phone/tablet. Maybe registration should have a quiz requiring knowledge a developer would have.
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#13I took 4 spins waiting, but I got my ticket at 16 minutes past the hour.
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#14It sold out in 30 minutes, not 30 seconds.
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#15I'm not sure this is the definition of 'first come, first served', I hit the register button the first time around 07:00:06, watching painstakingly as every spinner eventually return "No tickets found". What a slap in the face.
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#16I also didn't get a ticket even though I was on the registration page at 7.00 on the spot. After four retries the tickets had sold out.
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#17Uh, awesome. Hope you had your finger on the button if you are an actual developer who wanted to go.
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#18They should probably allow one day for people to request the tickets and then assign them at random.
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#19Uh, awesome. Hope you had your finger on the button if you are an actual developer who wanted to go.
I did, no such luck. Same as every single year I've tried. You'd think having been invited down to Google for other summer events would help but it doesn't. I'd buy a ticket that doesn't qualify you for any swag if I still get to talk to people but it seems like they don't care about that.
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#20If there's such huge demand, you'd think that maybe they'd move it somewhere larger where they can satisfy more of that demand? If you want developers to get and stay excited about your platform, making it impossible to come to your conference doesn't help.