WWDC 2010 sells out in only 8 days

If you want to go to WWDC 2010 and haven't signed up yet, it's already too late.

All passes for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, which runs June 7 - 11 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, were sold as of yesterday. The annual conference caters to Mac OS X and iPhone OS developers. Apple has been less than subtle about demonstrating that the mobile OS has become the favored child in the family, though.

It is expected that iPhone OS 4 will headline the event, with tracks on multitasking of iPhone and iPad apps, working with the iAd in-app advertising solution, and taking advantage of the 100+ new features in the mobile operating system. Sessions on coding for Mac OS X, HTML5 local storage, and network applications are also expected to be popular among developers. As in past years, many Apple watchers expect that the next generation iPhone will be introduced at the show.

By announcing the dates for WWDC 2010 a little more than a month before the show, Apple had already received criticism from developers who complained that they would not have time to make flight and hotel reservations. What's up for next year? "Hi ... we're having WWDC next week. Can you come?"

[via AppleInsider]

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Roberto

Either 10.7 needs to be the knees bees, apple announces the purchase of parallels, or iPhone apps are somehow executed in osx, or the Macintosh platform is as dead-ended as MS Windows.

May 07 2010 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

air2fakie

if anyone has a spare ticket, please email me!

May 07 2010 at 3:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam

I work for a moderately large corporation, and miraculously was able to get travel approval for WWDC before they sold out, but I was pretty nervous about it. My ticket was purchased on Tuesday, so I made it with 48 hours to spare.

I've been trying to figure out why Apple waited so long to announce the conference this year. In doing so, they've forced everyone who attends to pay higher prices for plane tickets and hotels, since booking only 5 weeks out is much more expensive than 2 or 3 months out. Maybe they were having production issues with the new iPhone and wanted to wait until they were sure they could deliver it on time before scheduling the conference? That would only make sense if they are planning to release the phone during (or shortly after) the conference. Maybe they were just so busy with the iPad launch that they didn't have as much manpower to plan for the conference? I would be interested to find out what the real reason is.

May 07 2010 at 2:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JKT

Problem: For those of us who work for a large corporation, it often takes more than 8 days to get approval on a purchase. These fast sellouts are preventing anyone with large infrastructure from attending.

May 07 2010 at 1:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Harkonian

So, more room for small developers? Is that a bad thing? :D

May 07 2010 at 1:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brett

As opposed to the advantage that bigger companies can have of bigger budgets to allow these types of trips.

Everyone's got gripes.

Mine is that I'm not a developer (and my wife takes more than 8 days to approve my travel) so I'm just going to have to follow the live-blogging.

May 07 2010 at 2:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply