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Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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post #15

This is pretty unbelievable. Refreshed at 10:00 and the site was already down with a "we'll be back soon" message. Obviously, the bigger devs would have got their tickets days (weeks?) ago.

I'm not sure they will have. Perhaps a few of the really major companies like EA, but I know some pretty prominent developers for the platform and none of them have ever mentioned anything about getting priority tickets.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

#22
Did anyone get in?

I got the error page that said to restart my browser at 10:00 am. Then the maintenance page at 10:01. At 10:02, it was sold out.

Should they go to a lottery system? It seems like who gets in is pretty arbitrary already, at least it would take the stress out of it. I was nervous about it all morning, and my heart was racing just before 10. Such craziness.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

#25
post #20

When are they going to move to a bigger venue? This is crazy.

Bigger than Moscone? Cowboys Stadium for the keynote?

Moscone North alone would be an improvement from Moscone West. Heck, just take over all of Moscone for the week!

I've been told the reason the event has been kept small is to maintain the same ratio of Apple developers to attendees. But I think that overstates the value of the Apple devs a bit. The attendees at this event really are one of a kind.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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post #20

When are they going to move to a bigger venue? This is crazy.

Bigger than Moscone? Cowboys Stadium for the keynote?

Apple still only uses Moscone West (at least as of last year). They could also use Moscone North & South as the big conferences do (Oracle OpenWorld/Dreamforce/etc)

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

#28
post #15

This is pretty unbelievable. Refreshed at 10:00 and the site was already down with a "we'll be back soon" message. Obviously, the bigger devs would have got their tickets days (weeks?) ago.

Meh. I'm a developer of one of the top 3 grossing music apps in the iOS App Store, and Apple doesn't give us anything.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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post #5

Anyone else get this screen in Chrome? http://cl.ly/image/2E2a1y0u1g0N By the time I pivoted to Safari one minute later it was sold out.

I got it in Chrome as well, though a sister comment got it in safari. Any ideas on the cause? Would want to avoid this in the future.

The only exceptional thing about my account was that I'm a member of two dev programs, a business and an enterprise, on the same account.

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