Everybody's reporting this "sold out in 2 minutes" number, but I got nothing but errors the instant they went on sale. I think they actually sold out immediately (where "immediately" means "as long as it took for the transactions to process).
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#32Our guess in how this went down:
first 5000 connections with using account/session where the credit card was already on file. This didn't work for us since we were attempting to pay with the corporate credit card.
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#33The tickets were in my cart. So close. The videos are going to be released during the show. Anyone in NYC going to set up a WWDC East event?
Back in 2011, there was one guy who waited a few minutes before deciding to purchase, checked the site again minutes later. Then Apple gave the "we're all sold out" message.
He goes to check the Apple Store. It still says that there's something in his shopping cart. So, on a whim, he decides to complete the checkout process. Put in his address, name, info, credit card, clicked through a few screens.
And he got in. All thanks to a cookie.
Alas, it doesn't seem like 2013 will have any "saved by a cookie" moments.
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#34Anyone 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.
Had two browsers open, got that error in both.
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#35When are they going to move to a bigger venue? This is crazy.
Why would they do that? Selling out in two minutes makes them look good, and the limited number of slots make the attendees feel like they're special.
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#36Well, seems like quite a few of the iOS developers I follow on Twitter with thousands of follower seem to have missed out.
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#37For future reference, is it possible to login to the developer center before the tickets go on sale, so you don't have to login? I didn't think to do that until 9:45 pacific, and by then logging in got a 'we'll be back soon' message.
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#39Blizzcon also sold out pretty fast. What's the point of this again?
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#40This 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.
you probably would have if you were top 3 grossing overall