Putting tickets on sale at 5:30am west coast time was a pretty dick move.
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WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
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Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
All iPhones prior to the 4S has been announced at WWDC and then released ~1 month later.
Only 3 out of 5 have been announced at WWDC: The original iPhone was announced at a special event on January 9, 2007. iPhone 3G was announced at WWDC 2008. iPhone 3GS was announced at WWDC 2009. iPhone 4 was annouced at WWDC 2010. iPhone 4S was announced at a special event on October 4, 2011.
'[A] special event on January 9, 2007'?
How soon they forget! It wasn't an Apple 'special event', it was the perennial San Francisco MacWorld Expo, once the go-to event for Apple announcements.
Apple's moved on from MacWorld as a launch platform, and I wouldn't be completely surprised if Apple someday owned their own general-audience conferences – believing, as with retail stores, they should control the whole experience.
But MacWorld Expo shouldn't be written out of Apple history.
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#53Putting tickets on sale at 5:30am west coast time was a pretty dick move.
They picked the time in a way that it was night across the Pacific (where nearly no one lives). That way it was a bit late in Japan and a bit early on the West Coast. The world doesn't start and end with the West Coast, especially not for Apple (and those on the West Coast are the best connected anyway, the most likely to learn quickly about the WWDC).
It doesn't matter how connected I am if I'm sleeping.
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think PST got the early jump last year, so fair's fair.
oh right, that was back in 2011, when the Earth spun the other direction- it's funny how fast you get used to things like that.
Right. Because that's more likely than Apple having opened sales at a different time.
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#55I really wish Apple would do product announcements prior to WWDC to segment the press/bloggers/fanboys/etc from the actual developers.
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh right, that was back in 2011, when the Earth spun the other direction- it's funny how fast you get used to things like that.
Right. Because that's more likely than Apple having opened sales at a different time.
I think his point was more that, when it's 7AM in PST, it's already 10AM in EST and ~3-4PM in Europe... that makes it hard for PST to "get the early jump" considering everyone else in Europe/America is most likely already awake...
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#57I really wish Apple would do product announcements prior to WWDC to segment the press/bloggers/fanboys/etc from the actual developers.
Press can get (or at least request) a press badge that is keynote only. For those who can't get one, is there really $1600 plus expenses worth of value in blogging the event? Especially when all the usual suspects are live-blogging, the news comes out instantly, and the video is posted within a day?
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#58$1,599? Understandable that they need the ~$7m in ticket sales, given that they just posted ~$11bn quarterly profits. ;)
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#59Tickets are now limited to 1 per person, or 5 per organization, which should help with scalping problems from previous years: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/ It's going to be a tight squeeze - most of the hotel space is already filled in the city due to the US Open taking place over a superset of these dates.
Hotels with Apple-negotiated room rates are available here: http://www.chmweb.com/HomeAttendee.aspx?ShowKey=35822617116
(via the WWDC FAQ: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/faq/)
Re: WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
#60$1,599? Understandable that they need the ~$7m in ticket sales, given that they just posted ~$11bn quarterly profits. ;)
Based on some completely suspect math, having 1000 engineers available for the length of the conference "costs" apple ~40 million dollars in productivity:
num_engineers * total_session_hours * (revenue_per_emp / 2000)
where num_engineers = 1000, total_session_hours = 40, and revenue_per_emp = 2020000‡
‡ http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple%20revenue%20per%2...